“They want to wipe Christians out of Iraq”. This is how mgr. Philip Najim, Procurator of the Chaldean Church to the Holy See, comments for the website Baghdadhope the sequence of attacks that yesterday were directed against 6 churches in Baghdad, with two people dead and dozens of injured people, according to the first unofficial estimates. According to mgr. Najim, “attacking places of worship after the Sunday afternoon celebrations proves that whoever it was that did that is a godless person, someone who does not respect the human being as a creature of God, the God of all religions”. Actually, the pattern of such attacks is the same as the one used before, for instance in the attacks of August 1st 2004, which even then were committed on a Sunday and after the services: “it’s clear – he explains – that these are not attacks that have to do with resisting an invader, this is a violent process that aims at slowing down the country’s development, its reconciliation. They want to have a weak, underdeveloped Iraq that, with the disappearance of its Christian component, would lose an important part of the society Christians have always contributed to, with their knowledge and their stabilising role”.