Packed Advent Mass celebrated in Baghdad

From Amy Proctor's blog:

On this second week of Advent, more than 200 Iraqis attended Mass in Baghdad to celebrate the anticipation of Christ's birth with Iraq’s first cardinal and leader of the ancient Chaldean Church, Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly. The 2 hour Mass was broadcast live on Iraqi state television. The Cardinal said,

"We pray today for the sake of each other and to forgive each other, as well to be directed to do good deeds. That is my demand for the Iraqis, moreover I urge the return home for displaced people and immigrants to their ancestral land."

Jassim al-Jazairi. a Shiite imam of a nearby Shiite mosque shook hands with the Catholic Cardinal in the Church's courtyard after Mass and said,

"I came here to show the unity of the Iraqi people.". . .

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H/t to Gateway Pundit.