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:: Fr. HANI ABDEL AHAD and four young men from his church were kidnapped on June 6 while travelling from his Divine Wisdom parish to the city´s minor seminary, both in northeastern Baghdad´s Suleikh neighbourhood. Fr. Ahad, the seventh Chaldean priest known to have been kidnapped within the past year, was working in a northeastern, majority-Sunni neighbourhood that has seen relatively little direct targeting of Christians.

Iraqi church leaders continue to hope for the release of Fr. Ahad kidnapped exactly one week ago, even as the number of threats against Christian families in the Iraqi capital tops 1,000, church sources said.

PRAYER Continue to remember the persecuted church in Baghdad and Iraq. READ MORE about the Persecution of Christians in Iraq during the serious situation of war and crisis on Persecution.blog and VOM Voice of the Martyrs.

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