Lost in the Sunni Triangle
Leaders of Baghdad church presumed dead.
by Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan
posted 11/02/2005 09:00 a.m.

The entire lay leadership of St. George's Memorial Church, the Anglican church in Baghdad, is presumed dead after the group went missing in mid-September. They were traveling in the Sunni Triangle, a 100-mile swath from Baghdad north to Tikrit, where 80 percent of insurgent attacks occur.

"There has been no further word about them," said Bishop Clive Handford, who is responsible for the Anglican diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. "We have to presume that they have been killed. There has been no claim of responsibility. In this case, no news is bad news."

The team of five Iraqi-born Christians had been visiting Amman, Jordan, for a church conference. Story