Pope asks for release of kidnapped Iraqi archbishop
Fri Feb 29, 2008

VATICAN CITY, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict deplored on Friday the kidnapping of the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul in Iraq as a "despicable" crime and urged the gunmen to free the prelate.

Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was kidnapped in the northern Iraqi city and his driver and two guards were killed when gunmen opened fire on his car. the rest