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Celebrating Christmas in Iraq means compromise for U.S. troops, Iraqi civilians »

Posted by: ekklesiawarrior 7 months, 2 weeks ago

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In a war zone, Christmas sometimes is as much about compromise as it is about celebration. - Christmas this year will be better than it was last year, when Youmara was too frightened to decorate or attend church services. Today he plans to take his wife and three children to a small neighborhood church and have some family and frie

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ekklesiawarrior7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Yousif Akhsho Youmara, who owns an auto-body repair shop in Baghdad, remembers the glorious Christmases of his youth, when family members would stay the night and Muslim and Christian guests would drop by for days.
"Life used to be more cheerful," he recalled. "Not like now."
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  ekklesiawarrior7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  from the article:
  Violence is way down from last Christmas. But there's hardly a sense of joy. Too many people are missing.
  Iraq once was home to about 800,000 Christians â;; about 3 percent of the population â;; but many now have fled to other countries. The Christian archbishop of Basra urged his flock to pray on Christmas but to avoid other celebrations to protest the killings of Christian brothers and sisters.
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