Father Bazi Speech Analysis

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Father Douglas Bazi, the priest who was kidnapped and tortured by Al-Qaeda, said being a Christian in Iraq is “impossible.”
The Baghdad-based priest spoke at a church in California and shared how Al-Qaeda militants captured him was he was on his way home from church in 2006. Within the nine days that he was held hostage by the terrorists, Father Douglas Bazi’s lost some of his teeth when his captors smashed them with a hammer, was shot in the leg, and sustained a broken nose and back, the Express details.
Father Bazi’s speech at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Catholic Church in Orangevale comes a few days after he faced the United Nations in New York and spoke about the genocide being committed against Christians in Iraq. The recent visit

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