Grandmother of Adam of Baghdad: “I Feel I’ve Lost My World”
Posted By Lisa Graas on December 26, 2010
Journeyman Pictures has a lengthy report on the plight of Christians in Iraq, including a brief interview with the grandmother of the little boy I call St. Adam of Baghdad. (See my story on Adam at NewsRealBlog.) In the report, Adam is mentioned starting at about 1:45 in the video. My heart aches for his poor grandmother and for all the Christians of Baghdad. Indeed, I ache for all the Christians of the beautiful country of Iraq. The video mentions that the only Christian congregation celebrating Christmas fully is an Anglican congregation.
One note. Through Ulf Silfverling, editor of Katolsk Observator in Sweden, which republished my article on Adam, I heard that some of the family members of the victims of the massacre at Our Lady of Deliverance Church (sometimes called “Our Lady of Salvation”) read my story on Adam and were very appreciative of the manner in which I reported it. We must continue prayers for the Christians of Iraq, and offer our sufferings for them during these most difficult times.
Click here for the report from Journeyman Pictures.
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Amen, I agree that prayer is much needed for those who chose to love God and remain faithfulto his word regardless of the dire situation they find themselves in. God Bless you
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,,,go Bush
Actually, qs, the Vatican was opposed to our going into Iraq….but once we were there, the Vatican said we should remain until the country is stabilized. If you haven’t noticed, George Bush is no longer president. The deaths and mass emigration of Christians from Iraq is as a result of our withdrawal from Iraq.
I know you normally don’t post links here, but a reading of this story from May of 2006 (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33109), or this one from December of 2005 (http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20051225130652.htm), clearly demonstrates that the persecution of Assyrian Christians (the largest Iraqi Christian population) was well underway, perhaps at its height, during the years when the u.s. military presence in Iraq was large and involved in ongoing hostilities. The online availability of such archived stories makes it difficult to spin your revisionist history.
Mark, I am Catholic. The Catholic position was that America should not have gone into Iraq in the first place. At that time, I personally took no PUBLIC position, but have always trusted the Vatican. I was not blogging and was too busy changing diapers at the time that America went into Iraq. I started blogging in 2008, long after either of these articles you link were published. The position of the Vatican was that once America went into Iraq, America should remain to ensure ‘stability’. Christians in Iraq were not heavily persecuted under Saddam Hussein. Persecution increased with the war, yes, but since America has left, it has become a slaughterhouse. Genocide. Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq due to Muslim violence. My position has always been consistent with the Vatican’s position. The decision to withdraw from Iraq was horribly wrong.
I didn’t realize that America had left.
Have you been sleeping? http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BO0W720101226?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
You have not refuted a word of what was contained in the stories for which I provided links. The truth is that the destruction of the Iraqi Christian community began and has continued during ALL of the years of the u.s. military occupation of Iraq, NOT in the years since our so-called troop drawdown has occured. The fact that you are Catholic is immaterial to the facts of what’s happened in Iraq. I’m Catholic, too. So what?
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Admin: You are speaking to me as if I supported our going into Iraq. As I’ve said, I was busy changing diapers at the time and was not well-versed on the situation at that time. So, it is unfair of you to speak to me as if I supported that decision. As for the violence against Christians, it increased when the war was ongoing. The reason that it increased is that the Muslims in Iraq identify America as a Christian nation and viewed Christians in Iraq as the ‘enemy’ once this Christian nation went to war against them. Now, we are facing what some call genocide since the withdrawal of troops began in earnest.
You want to blame everything on the U.S. military when the main problem is Islamic hatred of Christians. It is Muslims who are killing Christians in Iraq and it is the military which is providing what little security there is. You would have the President pull troops out completely. This would result in wholesale slaughter of the remaining Christians in Iraq. There are not enough tolerant Muslims in Iraq to protect them.
They’re going back to “pre-surge” levels.
I find it offensive that people think the U.S. military is a moral institution. It’s not in the least.
There is no dispute among the Iraqi Christians that the Islamist jihad against them has greatly intensified as a direct result of the withdrawal. I don’t think they would call the U.S. military a “moral institution”. Neither would they call it ‘immoral’. I think they would universally say that the Church defines what is true and what is not true on matters of faith and morals and the Vatican said that once the U.S. went in, the U.S. should remain there until there is security. The president is withdrawing anyway, and the result is massacres of Christians. What Catholics would disagree with is the notion that the military is an inherently moral OR immoral institution. We would say, however, that the right of innocents to security and safety is inherently moral.
What about all the muslims Bush has had killed.
I would argue that their lives are just as important as the Christians.
You are changing the subject here and throwing things back on a former president when there is a massacre of Christians occurring because of withdrawal of American troops. My guess is you are either a partisan Democrat or a Paul supporter.
I’m just saying that Mulsims and Christians have equal value.
Do you agree with that?
I would say that Islam is a violent political system wedded to a religion and that Christianity and Judaism are both religions of peace. I would also say that individual human beings, no matter who they are, have dignity as human persons created by God. I would say that no one should ever do anything with the intention of directly killing any innocent human person and I would also say that war is justified when it is necessary as a defensive measure. We are not equal in the eyes of God. Some saints have bigger crowns in heaven than others. “The last shall be first, and the first shall be last.” Have you read about Adam of Baghdad? http://lisagraas.com/2010/12/14/adam-of-baghdad-enough-enough-enough/