"At Christmastime, flickers of hope; Leaders press for peace in troubled areas" by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press | December 26, 2007
ROME - In violence-ridden Baghdad, venturing out in large numbers late at night is still unthinkable, so the Iraqi capital's Christians celebrated midnight Mass in the middle of the afternoon on Christmas Eve. Yesterday about 2,000 went out to the Mar Eliya Church in the east of Baghdad where Iraq's Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, leader of the ancient Chaldean Catholic Church, celebrated Mass.
Cardinal Delly told the congregation:
"[Iraq is] a bouquet of flowers of different colors, each color represents a religion or ethnicity but all of them have the same scent."
He congratulated Muslims for their Eid al-Adha holiday, falling near Christmas, and Muslim clerics - both Sunni and Shi'ite - attended in a sign of unity.
Shi'ite cleric Hadi al-Jazail told AP Television News outside the church:
"May Iraq be safe every year, and may our Christian brothers be safe every year. We came to celebrate with them and to reassure them. . . . This national gathering is beautiful against the sectarian fighting, and God willing from this lesson we'll all pray for peace."
Also see: A Christian Christmas in Snowy Iran
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