Another catholic priest killed in IRAQ

[a_ntv]

Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni and the subdeacons have been massacred by blind violence. Killed on his way home from Church

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9452&size=A

 

[Elspeth688]

all killing is a sin 6th commandment

 

[elizabethevangeline]

The terrorists might think they can kill our bodies or our spirit by frightening us, but, on Sundays, churches are always full. They may try to take our life, but the Eucharist gives it back. …

“There are days when I feel frail and full of fear. But when, holding the Eucharist, I say ‘Behold the Lamb of God, behold, who takes away the sin of the world,’ I feel his strength in me. When I hold the Host in my hands, it is really he who is holding me and all of us, challenging the terrorists and keeping us united in his boundless love.”

-words of Father Ragheed Ganni.

http://ncregister.com/site/article/2835/

 

[elizabethevangeline]

After celebrating Sunday mass, Fr Ragheed and his three aides were leaving the Parish by car, accompanied by the wife of one of the sub-deacons,, Gassan Isam Bidawed. In recent days the three insisted on accompanying Fr Ragheed to protect him. “They were young men alive with faith, who accompanied their parish priests every more, risking their lives for their belief in Christ”, their friends tell. Suddenly, at the corner of the road, their car is blocked by unknown armed men militants who order the woman to distance herself from the others and then, in cold blood, shoot the remaining passengers, repeatedly. The aggressor’s then booby trapped the car with explosives; with the aim of further carnage should anyone near the car to recover the bodies. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the bodies remained, abandoned on the city street, because no one dared to approach. It was only towards ten pm (Local time) that security forces finally defused the explosives allowing corpses to be recovered.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9443

 

[elizabethevangeline]

I found these quotes interesting. It would be easy to think the obvious answer is to give everyone their own space-like sending my children to their rooms for a time-out. Real life is more complicated (and my boys share a room too).

But fear is gripping Iraq’s Catholics who are deeply concerned by the “excessive” coverage that local media are giving to the news. Anonymous sources in the capital say that “for example for over three days now Ishtar Tv has been speaking of Sunday’s events”. They explain; “We are afraid that this propaganda is aimed at the establishment of a “Christian ghetto” on the Niniveh plain, by groups who have interest in depicting this as the only solution for survival, pushing those Christians left in the country to leave Baghdad and Mosul towards Niniveh”, on the borders with Kurdistan. On many occasions bishops and religious leaders have expressed alarm at this proposal for an autonomous region for the Christians in the North, which they consider to be both “dangerous” and against the very nature of the Church’s mission.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9457

While tensions rise, some politicised Christian groups in the United States are pushing for the creation of an autonomous region for the “Assyrians in Iraq”, which they see as the only solution for their survival. In the past local bishops on the ground have expressed their strong opposition to this “dangerous” project.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9502

 

[ParsonJefferson]

Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni and the subdeacons have been massacred by blind violence. Killed on his way home from Church

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9452&size=A

This is no surprise, nor is it necessarily a persecution or martyrdom thing.


These savages are killing everybody, and destroying everything. I was listening to NPR this morning, and one Islamic terrorist group just destroyed a couple Mosques the other day.

Seems more like mind-less and wanton violence than anything. And how, exactly, are civilized people supposed to deal with that? I don't know.