"La situazione sta peggiorando. Gridate con noi che i diritti umani sono calpestati da persone che parlano in nome di Dio ma che non sanno nulla di Lui che è Amore, mentre loro agiscono spinti dal rancore e dall'odio.
Gridate: Oh! Signore, abbi misericordia dell'Uomo."

Mons. Shleimun Warduni
Baghdad, 19 luglio 2014

4 marzo 2009

The Chaldean church in the world remembers its martyrs

By Baghdadhope

There have been many commemorative ceremonies in these last days in memory of Msgr. Faraj Paulus Raho, the bishop of Mosul abducted last year on February 29 whose corpse was found in the same city on March 13, and of the three men - the driver and two bodyguards -- who were killed in the ambush set for the bishop outside the Church of the Holy Spirit.

A
ceremony was held in Karamles to remember the three men killed on the day of Msgr. Raho,'s abduction: Faris George Khoder (b. 1973), Samir Abdallahd Dahno (b. 1966) and Rami Hikmet Paulus (b. 1975). The Holy Mass, celebrated by Fr. Yousef Shamoun Hanna was in the Chaldean Church dedicated to Mar Addai where on last year was celebrated the funeral ceremony of Mons. Raho and of the three men, and where not only the Bishop is buried but also Fr. Ragheen Ganni, the young priest who was also killed in an ambush set for him and three deacons outside the church of the Holy Spirit in June 2007.

Other commemorative ceremonies were held in
Toronto (Canada) in the Chaldean Church of the Good Shepherd (Msgr.Hanna Zora) and in Paris (France) in the Chaldean church of the Virgin Mary (Msgr. Petrus Yousef)