Iraqi Christians Hold Mass In Assaulted Church

by The Associated Press
Sunday Nov. 7, 2010.

The walls were still splattered with blood and pieces of flesh as Iraqi Christians celebrated Mass on Sunday in the church that just a week before had been the scene of a horrific bloodbath in which dozens died.

Parishioners holding candles and wearing black gathered in Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation church, which had been stripped bare of pews and still bore bullet holes along its walls, while overhead the chandeliers and ceilings were stained with blood. the rest

"We will pray for those who assaulted our church and shed the blood of our martyrs."