Ragheed ganni biography for kids
Ragheed ganni biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders.
This priest and three companions were killed for the faith in Iraq
Rome, Italy, Jun 9, 2017 / 02:04 am
When Fr. Ragheed Aziz Ganni was confronted by armed men after celebrating the Eucharist at his Chaldean Catholic parish in Mosul, they asked him why he was still there and why he hadn't closed the church as they had demanded.
"How can I close the house of God?" he responded, right before they shot and killed him, alongside three friends and subdeacons at the parish: Waheed, Ghasan, and Basman.
An Iraqi priest born in 1972 in a town in the Plain of Ninevah, Fr.
Ganni moved to Rome in 1996 to study at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas on a scholarship from the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need.
In 2003 he decided to return to Iraq, despite the war following the American invasion, and the persecution of Christians that was taking place.
He served at a parish in Mosul until the day of his death, June 3, 2007.
Ten years after his death, Fr. Ganni's fr