Surrounded by glass and steel government buildings, some of them bombed-out shells from long ago, St. George\u2019s Church in downtown Baghdad has always seemed like something of an oasis.<\/p>\n
Ever since the United States started using high explosives diplomacy with Iraq, the little Anglican church has had one close call after another.<\/p>\n
Built in 1936 by the British military during their occupation of Iraq, the church lost some of its famous stained-glass windows when the United States military bombed a nearby building in 1992, and more were destroyed during the invasion in 2003, leaving only three examples remaining. They were mementos of British regiments stationed there.<\/p>\n
Sunday the last three stained glass windows were blown out by the suicide bomb blasts that destroyed three Iraqi government buildings nearby, according to the church\u2019s lay pastor, Faiz Georges.<\/p>\n