East- Aramean Chaldean bishop in Mosul, Iraq abducted.

Three of his bodyguards killed

 

Aramean people: Aramean people (not to be confused with ‘Armenians’) speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Abraham, Moses and Jesus. They are the indigenous people of what was called in ancient times Aram- Nahrin, in our days it is called ‘Mesopotamia’.

Some Arameans today identify themselves with “Assyrians”, because of the spiritual colonial hate generating activities of the Western missionaries and diplomats in the Middle-East. Other Arameans became known as “Chaldeans”. However all of them are Arameans.

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The terror against the Aramean indigenous nation of Iraq continues undiminished. The kidnapping of the East- Aramean Chaldean bishop of Mosul, Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho is the umpteenth time now to strike terror into the Aramean nation of Iraq, who also bekcam known as "Assyrians" and Chaldeans, to drive them out of Iraq and to clean this part of the world of its indigenous nation who have been presence here since thousands of years.

 

Unfortunately, Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho is not the only dignitary who has been kidnapped. Few examples:

 

12-10-2006: The West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox Priest Paulus Iskander in Mosul was kidnapped and brutally slaughtered.

22-11-2006: The West- Aramean Isoh Majeed Hadaya killed by terrorists in Iraq

3-6-2007: East- Aramean Chaldean priest Ragied Aziz Gannie brutally murdered in Mosul along with three deacons by Muslim extremists

 

 

Source: http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11657&size=A

 

Mgr Faraj Raho had just finished celebrating the Via Crucis. The three people in a car with him were killed.

Mosul (AsiaNews) – Mgr Faraj Raho, Chaldean bishop of Mosul, was abducted today after he celebrated the Via Crucis. Three people who were with him were killed. Mgr Rabban al-Qas, bishop of Arbil, told AsiaNews about the event after getting the news directly from Mosul.

The kidnappers are said to have already made a request. The abduction took place at 5.30 pm local time, Ishtar TV reported. Bishop Raho had just left Mosul’s Holy Spirit Cathedral.

“The bishop is in terrorist hands,” Mgr al-Qas said, “but we don’t know in what physical state. The three men who were with him, including his driver, were killed.”

“It is a terrible moment for our Church. Please, pray for us,” Arbil bishop said in an appeal to the world.

Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho, East- Aramean Chaldean bishop of Mosul (Iraq)

 

 

1-3-2008: Funeral of the three bodyguards of Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho

 

 

Saturday 1-3-2008 funeral of the three killed bodyguards of Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho took place in the city of Karemlesh in northern Iraq. The funeral ceremony was held in the Apostel St. Addai Church in Karemlesh and was amongst others attended by the West- Aramean Syrian Catholic bishop Baselius Qasmusa and East- Aramean Chaldean bishop Al-Qas.

 

 

Hundreds of faithful attended the funeral service in the St. Addai Church in Karemlesh

 

 

Fares Girgis Kgder

(Driver of the car)

Rami Hikmet Paulus

 The three killed bodyguards of Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho were:

Fares Girgis Kgder: Born in 1973, married and father of three children.

Samir Abdlahad Dahno: Born in 1966, married and father of three children.

 

Rami Hikmet Paulus: Born in 1975, married and father of three children.