Faith makes for safety in Baghdad

Faith makes for safety in Baghdad, the most dangerous parish in the world :

"MANY have said that my parish of Baghdad is the most dangerous in the world. I get there by military aircraft and helicopter. Since last Easter all of my lay leaders have been killed, a suicide bomber turned up in church, people have been killed at our church entrance, we have endured car bombs and been attacked and our church has been surrounded by concrete barricades. I will not even be allowed to take the services there this Easter, I will officiate instead in the Shia Muslim Prime Minister’s lecture theatre. Here is inter-religious relations at the cutting edge."

I found this speech by the Rev Canon Andrew White, an Anglican priest in Iraq, to be very moving. He says it simply, he says it well, but his speech is inspired. We cannot pass through Easter without thinking of those in the other parts of the world who are all suffering on a daily basis. This speech dignifies them.