Summary: Dateline October 31, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 31, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that at least 58 Iraqi Catholics died and more than 70 were wounded when police stormed a Baghdad church where gunmen were holding dozens of parishioners hostage, threatening to kill them if al-Qaida-prisoners were not released. Since the war began, Iraq has lost half of its 1.5 million Christians.