Iraqi priest shot dead in Baghdad
Middle East • April 2008 • Views: 416
An Iraqi priest has been killed in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen in central Baghdad.
Fr Adel Youssef, an Assyrian Orthodox priest, was gunned down near his home in the capital’s Karrada district.
His death follows the discovery of the body of Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul last month, two weeks after he was kidnapped.
Iraqi Christians repeatedly complain of being targeted by Islamist militants, and many have fled Iraq since 2003.