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» 10/15/2007 15:03
IRAQ
Mosul: Syro-Catholic priests still in the hands of their captors
Negotiations are underway to free priests abducted on Saturday. Pope appealed for their release yesterday. Some Iraqi Christians criticise Baghdad’s ‘indifference’ towards the plight of kidnapped Iraqi clergymen.

Ankawa (AsiaNews) – The two Syro-Catholic priests, who were abducted in Mosul on Saturday and whose release Pope Benedict XVI called for in yesterday’s Angelus, are still in the hands of their captors, Christian website www.Ankawa.com reported this morning. On its Arabic page, it criticises the central government which “continues to ignore the problem of Iraqi clergymen” and fails “to investigate and arrest the culprits.”

Sources close to the nunciature told AsiaNews that negotiations are underway and that the Syro-Catholic bishop of Mosul, Mgr Basile George Casmoussa, is working day and night for the release of the two priests. According to some rumours talks are slow because the captors are asking a king’s ransom for letting them go.

Fr Mazen Ishoa, 35, and Fr Pius Afas, 60, were kidnapped by unknown people on their way to celebrate mass at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Church in the al-Faisaliya neighbourhood.


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See also
10/17/2007 IRAQ
Ultimatum for two priests abducted in Mosul, 72 hours to pay the ransom
10/18/2007 IRAQ
Abducted priests in Mosul, bishop slams government indifference
10/16/2007 IRAQ
Angst over two missing priests in Mosul, captors suspend contacts
10/14/2007 IRAQ
Two priests kidnapped in Mosul while travelling to say mass
04/18/2008 IRAQ
Love for our “Muslim brothers and for Iraq” in Mgr Rahho’s Will
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