Ragheed Ganni - Revision history

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 [[File:Ragheed ganni with Pope.jpg|right|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
 [[File:Ragheed Ganni Chaldean Mass Chennai India 2015.jpg|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni Remembrance Mass in Chennai India by Christians of India, October 2015]]
 On June 3, 2007, [[Trinity Sunday]], the Sunday after [[Pentecost]], Father Ragheed Ganni was martyred along with three subdeacons including his cousin Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, and Gassan Isam Bidawed in front of Mosul's [[Holy Spirit]] Chaldean Church where he was parish priest.  Fr. Ragheed had just finished celebrating the Sunday evening [[Divine Liturgy]] ([[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]]).<ref>http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9442  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>  The three deacons had recently decided to accompany Fr. Ragheed because of threats against his life.  After Mass as he was walking away from the church with Daud and  as Isho, Bidawed, and Isho's wife followed by car, the group was stopped by unknown armed men. One of the gunmen shouted at Fr. Ragheed that he had warned him to close the church and demanded to know why he didn't do it. Fr Ragheed replied asking "How can I close the house of God?"  The gunmen ordered the woman to flee.  Then after the gunmen demanded that the four men convert to Islam and they refused they were shot down.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/20090603124803.pdf  Accessed 9-6-2012</ref>  The car was then set with explosives to deter interference and so that the bodies would remain abandoned.  Several hours passed until a police bomb-squad defused the devices allowing corpses to be recovered.<ref>http://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-Chaldean-Church-mourns-Fr.-Ragheed-Ganni-and-his-martyrs-9443.html  Accessed September 5, 2012; http://www.chaldean.org/CommunityPages/ChaldeanChurches/MotherofGodChurchMIUSA/tabid/113/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/146/Will-The-World-Continue-to-Remain-Indifferent-as-Chaldeans-Are-Massacred.aspx  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>

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 Fluent in Arabic, Italian, French, and English, Fr. Ragheed served as a correspondent for the international agency “Asia News” of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.<ref>http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/145921?eng=y  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>
-[[File:Ragheed Ganni -DA PRETE.jpg|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
 Fr. Ragheed was finishing his degree in Rome when the Iraq war broke out.  Fr. Ragheed had received permission from his bishop to return to the ''Angelicum'' in Rome to work on a doctorate in ecumenism.  In a prewar interview he expressed his opposition to the invasion of Iraqi fearing that Iraqi Christians would be targeted and persecuted.  He looked forward to returning to his native land to serve the Church and people there.  He did so after [[Saddam Hussein]] was ousted from power in 2003.<ref>http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/dossier_missionari_ucisi_2007.doc</ref>

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 [[File:RagheedGanni.jpg|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
-'''Ragheed Aziz Ganni''' (20 January 1972, [[Mosul]], [[Iraq]] – 3 June 2007, Mosul) was a [[Chaldean Catholic Church|Chaldean]] [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Catholic]] priest.  He served the [[Chaldeans|Chaldean people]] in Mosul during the worst period of Iraq modern history of civil wars.
+'''Ragheed Aziz Ganni''' (20 January 1972, [[Mosul]], [[Iraq]] – 3 June 2007, Mosul) was a [[Chaldean Catholic Church|Chaldean]] [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Catholic]] priest.  He was ordained a priest in [[Rome]] on October 13, 2001 at the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]].  Father Ganni served the [[Chaldeans|Chaldean people]] in Mosul during the worst period of Iraq modern history of civil wars.
 ==Biography==
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 The Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone telegrammed  Fr. Ragheed’s bishop on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI saying that "Ragheed’s sacrifice will inspire in the hearts of all men and women of good will a renewed resolve to reject the ways of hatred and violence, to conquer evil with good and to cooperate in hastening the dawn of reconciliation, justice and peace in Iraq." <ref>http://www.insidethevatican.com/newsflash/2008/newsflash-jan20-08.htm  Accessed August 4, 2012</ref>
 ==A Chaldean Martyr==

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 Fluent in Arabic, Italian, French, and English, Fr. Ragheed served as a correspondent for the international agency “Asia News” of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.<ref>http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/145921?eng=y  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>
-[[File:Ragheed Ganni -DA PRETE.jpg|left|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
+[[File:Ragheed Ganni -DA PRETE.jpg|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
 Fr. Ragheed was finishing his degree in Rome when the Iraq war broke out.  Fr. Ragheed had received permission from his bishop to return to the ''Angelicum'' in Rome to work on a doctorate in ecumenism.  In a prewar interview he expressed his opposition to the invasion of Iraqi fearing that Iraqi Christians would be targeted and persecuted.  He looked forward to returning to his native land to serve the Church and people there.  He did so after [[Saddam Hussein]] was ousted from power in 2003.<ref>http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/dossier_missionari_ucisi_2007.doc</ref>
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 ==A Chaldean Martyr==
-[[File:Ragheed ganni with Pope.jpg|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
+[[File:Ragheed ganni with Pope.jpg|right|Father Ragheed Ganni]]
 [[File:Ragheed Ganni Chaldean Mass Chennai India 2015.jpg|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni Remembrance Mass in Chennai India by Christians of India, October 2015]]

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 '''Ragheed Aziz Ganni''' (20 January 1972, [[Mosul]], [[Iraq]] – 3 June 2007, Mosul) was a [[Chaldean Catholic Church|Chaldean]] [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Catholic]] priest.  He served the [[Chaldeans|Chaldean people]] in Mosul during the worst period of Iraq modern history of civil wars.
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 After completing a degree in Civil Engineering at Mosul University in 1996 and after performing obligatory military service under the [[Saddam Hussein]] regime<ref>http://angelicumnewsletterblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/iv-anniversario-dell-deliv-anniversary.html
    Accessed 9-12-2012</ref> Ganni entered the seminary in Iraq.  In 1996 Ganni's bishop sent him to [[Rome]] for further study.  Ganni is an [[List of people associated with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas|alumnus]] of the [[Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)|Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ''Angelicum'']] where he completed a licentiate in ecumenical theology in 2003.  He was ordained a priest in [[Rome]] on October 13, 2001 at the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]].
 During his study in Rome he resided at the [[Pontifical Irish College]] where he played soccer for the College.  The annual showcase 5-a-side tournament played in May between the Scots, English, Beda and Irish Colleges has been named the "Ragheed Cup" in his honor.<ref>http://www.scotscollege.org/the-scots-college-magazine/summer,-mmx/it's-not-the-winning-that-counts.aspx  Accessed 9-12-2012</ref>
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 Fluent in Arabic, Italian, French, and English, Fr. Ragheed served as a correspondent for the international agency “Asia News” of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.<ref>http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/145921?eng=y  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>
 Fr. Ragheed was finishing his degree in Rome when the Iraq war broke out.  Fr. Ragheed had received permission from his bishop to return to the ''Angelicum'' in Rome to work on a doctorate in ecumenism.  In a prewar interview he expressed his opposition to the invasion of Iraqi fearing that Iraqi Christians would be targeted and persecuted.  He looked forward to returning to his native land to serve the Church and people there.  He did so after [[Saddam Hussein]] was ousted from power in 2003.<ref>http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/dossier_missionari_ucisi_2007.doc</ref>
 The Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone telegrammed  Fr. Ragheed’s bishop on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI saying that "Ragheed’s sacrifice will inspire in the hearts of all men and women of good will a renewed resolve to reject the ways of hatred and violence, to conquer evil with good and to cooperate in hastening the dawn of reconciliation, justice and peace in Iraq." <ref>http://www.insidethevatican.com/newsflash/2008/newsflash-jan20-08.htm  Accessed August 4, 2012</ref>
 ==A Chaldean Martyr==
 On June 3, 2007, [[Trinity Sunday]], the Sunday after [[Pentecost]], Father Ragheed Ganni was martyred along with three subdeacons including his cousin Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, and Gassan Isam Bidawed in front of Mosul's [[Holy Spirit]] Chaldean Church where he was parish priest.  Fr. Ragheed had just finished celebrating the Sunday evening [[Divine Liturgy]] ([[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]]).<ref>http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9442  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>  The three deacons had recently decided to accompany Fr. Ragheed because of threats against his life.  After Mass as he was walking away from the church with Daud and  as Isho, Bidawed, and Isho's wife followed by car, the group was stopped by unknown armed men. One of the gunmen shouted at Fr. Ragheed that he had warned him to close the church and demanded to know why he didn't do it. Fr Ragheed replied asking "How can I close the house of God?"  The gunmen ordered the woman to flee.  Then after the gunmen demanded that the four men convert to Islam and they refused they were shot down.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/20090603124803.pdf  Accessed 9-6-2012</ref>  The car was then set with explosives to deter interference and so that the bodies would remain abandoned.  Several hours passed until a police bomb-squad defused the devices allowing corpses to be recovered.<ref>http://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-Chaldean-Church-mourns-Fr.-Ragheed-Ganni-and-his-martyrs-9443.html  Accessed September 5, 2012; http://www.chaldean.org/CommunityPages/ChaldeanChurches/MotherofGodChurchMIUSA/tabid/113/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/146/Will-The-World-Continue-to-Remain-Indifferent-as-Chaldeans-Are-Massacred.aspx  Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>
 Thousands of people attended the funeral of the four men in Karemlash, Iraq on June 4, 2007.  Father Ganni was secretary to [[Paulos Faraj Rahho]], the [[Archbishop]] of Mosul of the Chaldean Church, Iraq's largest Christian community. Rahho was murdered only nine months after Ganni's death, in the same city of Mosul.
 ==See also==

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 ==Biography==
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 Ragheed Aziz Ganni was born on January 20, 1972 in the predominantly Christian city of [[Mosul]], Iraq.