Light a candle for Mgr. Rahho clicking on the image, thanks By Baghdadhope
In Karamles, the Christian village in the north of Iraq that is becoming the symbol of violent deaths that in recent years have decimated the Christian community, which has already seen the funeral ceremonies of Father Ragheed Ghanni and three deacons killed with him last year in Mosul, and of three young men escorting Mgr. Rahho the day of his kidnapping, pain and sorrow will be great today.
The death of such a beloved bishop, the manner of his kidnapping, a real ambush, and the discovery of his body, buried in a dumping ground, a line and a circle of chalk drawn on the earth to indicate the exact location, are all signs of the weakness of a community that although not part of any war for internal power it is its victim.
It is in a Karamles, literally surrounded and sealed off by Iraqi security forces, but also by the Kurdish ones that today will escort there the priests and the bishops who live in Kurdistan, that in the early afternoon there will be the funeral ceremony of Mgr. Faraj Paulus Rahho.
It is in Karamles that the bishop will be buried because, although born in Mosul, "it would be too dangerous to go" said to Baghdadhope a source of the Chaldean Patriarchate.
It is in Karamles that today the Iraqi church is waited. After it was reported that the patriarch of the Chaldean church, Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, was not going to attend the ceremony but would be represented by one of the vicar bishops of Baghdad, yesterday evening his presence was instead confirmed.
For security reasons, but also because of the obvious difficulties that the organization of such a kind of ceremony involves the list of participants has not yet been communicated.
It can be assumed, however, the presence of the whole Chaldean episcopate in Iraq, the Christian bishops of Mosul, Catholics or not, and all priests, nuns and believers who will be able to get there.
