Kidnappers Murder Elder in Iraq

Compass Direct has the following lead story regarding an Elder of a Christian church who was kidnapped and murdered in Iraq recently.  Here's a blurb and you can read the whole article here.

December 4 (Compass Direct News) – Grieving Christians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul completed three days of mourning for a murdered Presbyterian Church elder yesterday, only hours before another Iraqi clergyman was grabbed off the streets of Baghdad this morning.

The martyred churchman, identified only as 69-year-old Elder Munthir, had been kidnapped after leading worship services at the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Mosul on November 26. His body was found four days later.

He is the second Iraqi Christian clergyman to be murdered in Mosul within the past two months.