NYT: 2,000-Year-Old Christian Community in Iraq Gains a Spiritual First in Baghdad
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: November 5, 2007

BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 — There is neither a cross nor a sign on the heavy metal gate to indicate that this is the official residence of one of the country’s most prominent Christians, the first in Iraq in modern times to be elevated to cardinal by the Roman Catholic Church.

The simple structure, in a dilapidated neighborhood of this capital, opposite empty former ministry buildings, is the home of Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, whom the pope named on Oct. 17 to the College of Cardinals along with 22 others from around the world. the rest