Catholic Culture: In a pathetic interview with BBC, London-based Archbishop Athanasios Dawood expressed his frustration, after the attack last week on the Bagdad Catholic cathedral, over the lack of protection given to Christians in Iraq and the new hatred that has taken over the nation after the US invasion. “You know, everybody hates the Christian,” he said in additional remarks to BBC. “Yes, during Saddam Hussein, we were living in peace– nobody attacked us. We had human rights, we had protection from the government but now nobody protects us.”
“Since 2003, there has been no protection for Christians,” he added. “We’ve lost many people and they’ve bombed our homes, our churches, monasteries.”
“Why are we living now in this country, after we had a promise from America to bring us freedom, democracy?” More of the report is here.
