Remembering Ragheed Ganni

The Assyrian Priest Martyred during the US Occupation of Iraq

Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni was an Assyrian who became a priest for the Chaldean Church. He was born in the city of Mosul, in the Assyrian heartland of Nineveh, which is now predominantly inhabited by Sunni Muslims. Before becoming a priest, he was a graduate from Mosul University and was required to fulfill obligated military service under the Baathist r…