By Xinhua
Mosul : Two Iraqi Catholic priests who were abducted a week ago in the northern city of Mosul were released on Sunday, local police and church sources said.
“Two Catholic priests abducted a week ago have been freed before midday by their kidnappers,” a source close to the CatholicChurch in Mosul told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
A police source in the city confirmed that the two priests were freed after being kidnapped in the al-Thawra neighborhood in western Mosul on October 13.
Chaos and insecurity following the U.S.-led invasion to Iraq left the country’s vulnerable minorities easy targets to gangs as well as Sunni and Shiite extremists.
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