Catholic Martyrs of the "New Iraq"

With “a heart full of bitterness and mourning”, the Chaldean Church is today lamenting its martyrs. This is how, in a joint statement the Chaldean Patriarch and his bishops remember Fr Ragheed Ganni and his three sub-deacons - Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, Gassan Isam Bidawed – murdered in cold blood yesterday, as they left the Parish Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul after Sunday Mass. This afternoon at 1500 (local time) their funerals will be held in Karamles, Fr. Ragheed’s home town, celebrated by Msgr. Faraj Rahho, bishop of Mosul.

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