{"id":5298,"date":"2006-10-13T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T10:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/a-priest-in-iraq.html"},"modified":"2006-10-13T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T10:35:24","slug":"a-priest-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/a-priest-in-iraq.html","title":{"rendered":"A priest in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some 500 people attended yesterday the funeral of Fr Paulos Eskandar at Mosul\u2019s Syrian-Orthodox St Ephrem Church. Father Eskandar, who was abducted on Monday, was founded beheaded some time later. <\/p>\n

The clergyman\u2019s relatives confirmed that his captors had demanded the payment of a US$ 350,000 ransom and that his church apologise for the Pope’s Regensburg remarks about Islam.<\/p>\n

In condemning the murder, Mgr Shlemon Warduni, auxiliary Chaldean bishop of Baghdad, confirmed \u201cnegotiations were underway but that the amount of money was too high and could not be raised. For this reason they decapitated him\u201d.<\/p>\n

Father Eskander\u2019s decapitated body was found on Wednesday in Mosul\u2019s Muharaibin neighbourhood. His arms showed signs of torture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More – the account of a priest on what Christians are enduring in Iraq.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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