Gunmen kidnap Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop
“He didn’t want the meeting to take place in the city but outside, because he knew it was dangerous”
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday in the northern Iraqi city and killed his driver and two guards, police said.
In Rome, Pope Benedict deplored the kidnapping of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho as a “despicable” crime and urged the gunmen to free the prelate.
Provincial police spokesman Brigadier-General Khaled Abdul Sattar said Rahho was kidnapped in the al-Nour district in eastern Mosul when he left a church.
“Gunmen opened fire on the car, killed the other three and kidnapped the archbishop,” he said. Read more