St. George’s Anglican Church and the Tree

Surrounded by glass and steel government buildings, some of them bombed-out shells from long ago, St. George’s Church in downtown Baghdad has always seemed like something of an oasis. Ever since the United States started using high explosives diplomacy with Iraq, the little Anglican church has had one close call after another. 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