Sectarian violence and a Christian exodus has left Baghdad’s St. Elia Catholic school largely surrounded by Muslims, who were drawn to the school’s no-hitting rule.

Iraqi Catholic school now Muslim
Sectarian violence and a Christian exodus has left Baghdad’s St. Elia Catholic school largely surrounded by Muslims, who were drawn to the school’s no-hitting rule.
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