The Vicar of Baghdad

The Vicar of Baghdad by Andrew White

"I live with a price on my head ... the kind of people I spend my time engaging with are not usually very nice.  On the whole nice people do not cause wars."

So writes Canon Andrew White, Vicar of St George's Church Baghdad.  His bome is in rural Hampshire but Canon White spends most of his time in a Portakabin in Baghdad's heavily fortified 'Green Zone'.   When he goes to the weekly services in St George's, a mile outside the Green Zone, he is accompanied by 20 armed guards.  But his main work is to communicate a message of hope and compassion.  He is respected by people on every side of the Middle Eastern conflict and has worked as a mediator in Iraq and beyond.