In a coordinated effort to generate fear among Iraqi Christians, the ethnically and religiously diverse city of Kirkuk witnessed another attack outside a Syrian Catholic Church on Tuesday around 6 a.m.
At least 23 people were wounded in the attack, mostly from surrounding homes. The church's parish leader, Imad Yalda, was inside the church during the bombing and was also among the wounded.
Following the attack, two other car bombs were also found outside Kirkuk's Christian Anglican Church and the Mar Gourgis church.
The bombs were defused by security forces prior to their explosion.
Kirkuk's Deputy Police Chief, Torhan Abdulrahman said of the attack, "It was a coordinated attack to target churches at the same time."
The Rev. Haithem Akram, of one of the targeted churches in today's attacks said, "The terrorists want to make us flee Iraq, but they will fail. We are staying in our country."
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Jeremiah the prophet said that after "foreigners" had been dispatched to "devastate" the "land of the Chaldeans" (Jer 51:2, 50:45) -- specifically a "great nation and many rulers aroused from the remote parts of the earth" (50:41) -- "(God's) people" (51:45) should "flee from the midst of Babylon" and save their own lives, so they won't be caught up in her punishment, because this is the "Lord's time of vengeance" (51:6).
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