“We Know That We Are Going to Be Killed”: An Interview with an Iraqi Priest

at First Things:

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Did you have prayers that you were relying on?

Fr. Bazi

My prayer was on the chain itself. How much I hated that chain, because they tied me. I used to pray by that chain, pray the rosary. With much praying I became calm. I really became stronger, sometimes I was aggressive with them. When they asked me questions, sometimes I was laughing, I asked them, “What kind of stupid question was that?” Sometimes I felt that they were captured by me, I was not captured by them.

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