Few Iraqi Christians Attend Christmas Mass
456980
Only a few Iraqi Christians showed up to celebrate Mass in Baghdad's churches on Saturday because of fears that Islamic militants could launch attacks to coincide with the holiday.
102532
BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Thousands of pilgrims gathered in Bethlehem on Monday for a Christmas mass promoted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Western powers as a chance to highlight the benefits of peacemaking.
329022
Pope John Paul II has spoken out against attacks on Iraq&#39;s Christian community after the bombing of two churches in the northern city of Mosul.
279849
SHEIKH ADI, Iraq  - Worshippers sacrifice fowl and  offer dawn prayers to the angel Malak Taus as hundreds of  members Iraq's obscure Yezidi sect gather at their Lalish  temple to celebrate the summer feast.
131419
COPENHAGEN -- The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He'd just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend  church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a...
574982
Parishioners of St. Mary s Ukrainian Catholic Church did not know in the fading warmth of autumn that they would celebrate Christmas Day in another congregation s church.
64089
VATICANO - Messaggio di solidarietÃ  del Santo Padre alle comunitÃ  cristiane in Iraq colpite da attentati CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI ha espresso la propria solidarietÃ  alla comunitÃ  cristiana in Iraq dopo i recenti attacchi avvenuti a Baghdad, Mossul e Kirkuk (vedi Agenzia Fides 10/1/2008). Il telegramma, a firma de...
534239
About a third of expatriate Iraqis who voted by absentee ballot last week in the United States chose the Shiite party backed by Iraq's leading clerics, followed closely by a party made up of Iraqi Christians, according to provisional results released Friday.
70206
An Iraqi man prays with his beads as others gather outside a destroyed church following an explosion in Baghdad, 16 October 2004. Bombs exploded near five churches around Baghdad this morning followed by a
522098
Pope John Paul II ushered in Christmas on Friday celebrating midnight Mass at St. Peter&#39;s Basilica, where worshipers prayed for world leaders to strive for peace and for
275731
Ayatollah Ali-al Sistani, who halted the three weeks of fighting in Najaf, is the most popular public figure in Iraq, says a poll which shows a deep undercurrent of respect for
185645
25 December 2004 -- Hundreds of millions of Christians are celebrating Christmas today. Many of those are turning their. thoughts to a small Palestinian West Bank town where many people believe Jesus Christ was born 2,004 years ago.
686415
CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT: There is no snow, though it hailed briefly in parts of Iraq last week and the temperature has dipped below freezing in recent days.
285922
In a tiny village at the northern tip of Iraqi Kurdistan, some Christian refugees who fled Baghdadâs violence are experiencing a kind of homecoming.
210280
KERBALA, Iraq  - Over a million Shi'ite pilgrims defied bombers and gunmen to flock to the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the day after scores were killed in a string of attacks likely to fuel sectarian bitterness.
598518
A surprisingly low number of Iraqis  turned out on Monday in the Detroit area -- home to one of the  largest concentrations of Arabs outside the Middle East -- to  register to vote in the upcoming election in their homeland.
529832
COLOGNE, Germany -- On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.