Orthodox Leader Calls for Iraq Withdrawal

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The longtime North American leader of an Orthodox Christian church said Saturday that President Bush shouldn't have invaded Iraq and should pull American troops out by next spring.

Metropolitan Philip Saliba, archbishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America the last 40 years, came to Charleston this weekend to proclaim St. George Orthodox Church a cathedral. Saliba will make the official proclamation at the morning service today at St. George, where he spoke with a reporter Saturday.

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Orthodox Leader Calls for Iraq Withdrawal

After growing up in a village in Lebanon, Saliba is one of 20 archbishops of the Antiochian (Lebanese-Syrian) strand of the Eastern Orthodox rite, that part of Christianity tha...

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