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February 5, 2008

MIDDLE EAST: Baghdad priest describes hope amid pain following recent attacks

020508-06

Episcopal News Service
Matthew DaviesLisa B. Hamilton, Correspondent for Episcopal Life Media in Provinces I and IV

The last remaining Anglican church in Iraq is receiving help from a Mobile, Alabama Episcopalian stationed in Baghdad. The Alabama Press-Register reports that Commander Scott Rye, one-time parishioner of Trinity Mobile and day chief at the Media Operations Center at the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, has begun a campaign to support the unique ministry of St. George's Memorial Church in Baghdad.