{"id":25613,"date":"2010-06-03T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/fr-ragheed-aziz-ganni-3rd-anni\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:55:57","slug":"fr-ragheed-aziz-ganni-3rd-anni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/fr-ragheed-aziz-ganni-3rd-anni\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Ragheed Aziz Ganni: 3rd anniversary of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/ragheed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ragheed.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/ragheed-thumb-200x174-6595.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"174\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>June 3rd is quickly becoming a date that most Christians will not forget too easily: 1) the liturgical memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga, 19th century African martyrs; 2) the death of Blessed Pope John XXIII; 3) the <b>murder of Father Ragheed and his companions<\/b>; and now 3) the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, OFM Cap.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni&#8217;s death with the three subdeacons is still a rather moving memory for me, not just on the anniversary but throughout the year when thinking of the plight of the Eastern churches. But why? Because he could&#8217;ve gone the other way, avoided the situation of his people and saved his life. Instead he confronted evil head-on with courage. Like other things one remembers, the deaths of people who unknowingly become incredible, beautiful witnesses to the Presence of Christ right <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now<\/span> (not some time ago).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Father Ragheed was a Catholic priest of the Chaldean Church in the Diocese of Mosul. Ganni was ordained a priest October 13, 2001. He was 35 years old, a young priest, and a collaborator in Truth for the Kingdom of God. He was convinced in the beauty of God&#8217;s Word and His enduring Presence in the world and that we ought not to be scared away.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More on Father Ragheed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragheed.net\/About.aspx\">can be read here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 3rd is quickly becoming a date that most Christians will not forget too easily: 1) the liturgical memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga, 19th century African martyrs; 2) the death of Blessed Pope John XXIII; 3) the murder of Father Ragheed and his companions; and now 3) the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, OFM Cap. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/fr-ragheed-aziz-ganni-3rd-anni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fr Ragheed Aziz Ganni: 3rd anniversary of death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1712,2119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}