Father Taher Saadallah Boutros, (Thaer Saad-alla Abdal), 32, was killed during the attack on Our Lady of Salvation Syrian Catholic church by Islamic terrorists during Mass celebration on the evening of Sunday, October 31, 2010, in Baghdad.
The uncle of Father Boutros, relating what one of the survivors told him, said "Taher was praying and reading a passage from the Bible when the armed men arrived. He told them 'kill me but let the worshippers go in peace'," he said.
A 24-year-old survivor, named Steven, said the gunmen told Father Boutros: "'Convert to Islam because in any case you will die,' and then they shot him in the head."
57 other Chaldean Christians, including Father Wassem Sabieh, 23, were brutally massacred that day.
Monsignor Pius Kasha, Vicar of Iraq's Syrian Catholic Church, stated "The two priests killed in the attacks were inseparable and they will be buried at a cemetery next to the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral".
The uncle of Father Boutros, relating what one of the survivors told him, said "Taher was praying and reading a passage from the Bible when the armed men arrived. He told them 'kill me but let the worshippers go in peace'," he said.
A 24-year-old survivor, named Steven, said the gunmen told Father Boutros: "'Convert to Islam because in any case you will die,' and then they shot him in the head."
57 other Chaldean Christians, including Father Wassem Sabieh, 23, were brutally massacred that day.
Monsignor Pius Kasha, Vicar of Iraq's Syrian Catholic Church, stated "The two priests killed in the attacks were inseparable and they will be buried at a cemetery next to the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral".
Father Taher Saadallah Boutros, (Thaer Saad-alla Abdal), 32, was killed during the attack on Our Lady of Salvation Syrian Catholic church by Islamic terrorists during Mass celebration on the evening of Sunday, October 31, 2010, in Baghdad.
The uncle of Father Boutros, relating what one of the survivors told him, said "Taher was praying and reading a passage from the Bible when the armed men arrived. He told them 'kill me but let the worshippers go in peace'," he said.
A 24-year-old survivor, named Steven, said the gunmen told Father Boutros: "'Convert to Islam because in any case you will die,' and then they shot him in the head."
57 other Chaldean Christians, including Father Wassem Sabieh, 23, were brutally massacred that day.
Monsignor Pius Kasha, Vicar of Iraq's Syrian Catholic Church, stated "The two priests killed in the attacks were inseparable and they will be buried at a cemetery next to the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral".
The uncle of Father Boutros, relating what one of the survivors told him, said "Taher was praying and reading a passage from the Bible when the armed men arrived. He told them 'kill me but let the worshippers go in peace'," he said.
A 24-year-old survivor, named Steven, said the gunmen told Father Boutros: "'Convert to Islam because in any case you will die,' and then they shot him in the head."
57 other Chaldean Christians, including Father Wassem Sabieh, 23, were brutally massacred that day.
Monsignor Pius Kasha, Vicar of Iraq's Syrian Catholic Church, stated "The two priests killed in the attacks were inseparable and they will be buried at a cemetery next to the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral".
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