Pope John Paul II sent Delly a condolence telegram.
"The sorrowful news ... against various Catholic communities gathered in prayer in their houses of worship struck me deeply," the pope said.
Despite the support, Kidr, like many other Christians, is looking for a way out.
"I want to go now, go to Syria and try to get to Australia," he said. "It's not safe in Iraq and it will only get worse."
The Armenian church sustained little damage but Sagman's living room, where his two young sons were watching cartoons on TV, suffered the brunt of the blast.
The front window blew in, spraying glass everywhere, knocking tables and vases over. His youngest son Hamam, 7, suffered cuts from broken shards of glass, but escaped serious injury.
"I'm tired, I didn't have any expectations from this life before, and now ... ," he broke off his sentence, his shoulders shaking as he fought to hold back tears.
Sagman was recently granted a temporary permit to stay in Syria, but hoping to settle elsewhere, he turned it down.
Now he wants to try again.
Despair
"A true Muslim would never touch a house of God," he said. "I feel despair now, only despair."
Outside, his Muslim neighbors and colleagues came to visit and offer their sympathies, sitting on chairs perched gingerly between pieces of glass and concrete.
"I didn't believe this until I came to see it with my own eyes," said Karima Hadi, one of Sagman's Muslim co-workers. She pulled back her veil to wipe the sweat from her face and tried to smile.
"We are all one heart, whether we're Muslim or Christian, this can't break us," she said.
At St. Peter's seminary in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood, the parking lot where people waited in cars to collect relatives after Sunday's evening Mass was a singed soaking mess.
An armed guard showed reporters around the scene. Unlike before, the gates to the monastery were locked, only to be opened from inside. People muttered that the church had been careless by not having a guard check entering cars.
"We've never had to do this before," said church administrator Majid Adwar, pointing to the guard's automatic rifle. "We've always considered ourselves peaceful people. We never thought this would happen."
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