31 October 2010 · Modern revival
The massacre took place at the Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in the Karrada district of eastern Baghdad. The first modest church was built on the site in 1952, and the current cathedral was constructed in 1968 after three years of building. Approximately 5,000 regular-attending families were affiliated with this cathedral alone, out of a total of approximately 14,000 Syriac Catholic families in Baghdad before the attack.
31 October 2010, evening — Car bombing at nearby bus station (diversion), followed by armed church assault and approximately 120 hostages taken
31 October 2010 — Iraqi special forces storm the church to end the crisis
Late November 2010 — Arrest of Hudhayfa al-Battawi, known as 'Emir of Baghdad,' of the Islamic State of Iraq
May 2011 — Hudhayfa al-Battawi killed along with ten senior operatives during a failed escape attempt from a counterterrorism prison complex
August 2011 — Three men sentenced to death and a fourth to 20 years in prison for their involvement in the massacre
2012 — Appellate court confirms the sentences
31 October 2019 (ninth anniversary) — Baghdad Archdiocese officially begins canonization proceedings for 48 Catholics killed in the massacre
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