Baghdad church hit by rocket fire: CEN 4.25.08 p 7. April 25, 2008
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St. George’s Memorial Church in Baghdad came under rocket fire on Thursday evening, the vicar of Baghdad Canon Andrew White reports.
All of the church’s windows were blown out by the blast and the church, built in the 1930’s to commemorate British war dead in the Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War, sustained some structural damage in the April 17 attack.
However, Canon White reports there were no injuries from the attack.
“This in itself is a miracle- the church was full at the time, with people attending our Thursday prayer meeting. It is indeed a miracle. It will cost us to get the damage repaired, but we are so grateful that nobody was injured, or worse,” he said in an email from Iraq.
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