Dangerous times.A Catholic bishop joins aprocession to the inaugural Mass at St. Joseph's Chaldean Church in Baghdad Dec. 21, 2003 as an Iraqi policeman stands guard in the background. A part of the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome (see papacy and Peter, Saint). Its commonest title in official use is Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. , the Chaldeans converted to Christianity in the first century and have since been based in Iraq. Christians are a minority in Iraq, only about 1 percent of the population, or 250,000 people. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , some Christians in Iraq hare expressed concern that a new regime may be less tolerant of Christians than the Baath Party The Arab Socialist Ba'th Party (also spelled Baath or Ba'ath; Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي) was founded in 1945 as a left-wing, secular was. |
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