Vicar of Baghdad: ‘When I invited Isil to dinner they said, “Yes, we’ll come, but we’ll chop off your head.” Rather kind of them to warn me’ – Daily Telegraph

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For more than 10 years, Canon Andrew White presided over the only Anglican Church in Iraq, a role that led him to be known universally as the Vicar of Baghdad. But his old parish of St George’s has become too dangerous, and today he leads a peripatetic life, spending time with his displaced congregation in Israel and Amman, Jordan.

Saphora Smith. Daily Telegraph. 25 June 2016

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