A Christian archbishop was kidnapped and killed in Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj Rahho had been kidnapped last month from the town of Mosul. His body was found on Thursday.
The church and Rahho's relatives had received
ransom demands. All contact though had ceased a few days ago. On Thursday the kidnappers got in touch with relatives telling them where they could find the body of their family member. The body had bullet wounds.
The Chaldean order spokes Aramaic, the same language spoke during the time that Jesus lived. They converted to Christianity in the first century A.D. Part of the Roman Catholic Church the Chaldean branch has been in Iraq since the beginnings.
While Christians are a small fraction of the Iraqi population insurgents have targeted them and their religious sites in recent years.
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