You resigned to the will of God, "let this cup pass me by, but your will be done not mine father"

Amal Allos

What a great loss to the Arab world especially for Iraq

Suhail Michael

email received Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 14:26:30

What a waste of life. Sad loss not only to the Christians of Iraq but to Iraq's civilization.

Joe Obayda

email received Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 14:06:29

It was with great shock, and sadness that we heard of the kidnapping and killing of this very holy man.  He is truly a martyr of the church.

Janan Allos

email received Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 02:21:02

May he rest in the Lord's peace and serve us all as a reminder of his commitment to his flock who needed him most during these most turbulent times of crisis! He will live on in the hearts and minds of all his people. Amen.

Julio H Franco

email received Friday, March 14, 2008 at 17:42:29

I will be offering prayers, fasts, and mass intentions for you and all Iraqi Christians. 

Vincent Talamas

email from Amman dated 13th March 2008

Dear Brothers and Sisters

We just received the sad news that His Excellency Bishop Mar Boulos Faraj Rahho has been founded dear in Mousoul !! after two weeks of agony with the terrorists! I would like to express you my sympathy , on Friday at 4 PM  a Mass will be celebrated with the Bishops of Amman and all the Iraqi families living here in Amman , the Mass will be in my Church Sweifieh, after that we will be in the Church's hall for three days from 4PM  until 8 PM  receiving people and friends expressing their solidarity  to the brother of the Bishop MARTYR and to all the Iraqi in Jordan .

The Mass will not be a funeral Mass but a Triumphal Mass celebrating the Victory of Love  and Peace over terrorism and  sin .I know very well Bishop Faraj,  I sent him  to Madrid   in 2005 to be operated ( open heart ) he told me always that he is targeted by the terrorism but even he  was  ready  to pay the price of peace and reconciliation in Iraq even with his blood !

He is the Martyr of the Universal Church, he is a SAINT .

Fr. Khalil JAAR

PAIN OF POPE FOR DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP OF MOSSUL

VATICAN CITY, 13 MAR 2008 (VIS) - Benedict XVI has sent a telegram to Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq, for the death of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mossul of the Chaldeans, Iraq, who was kidnapped on 29 February.

  In his telegram the Pope expresses his closeness "to the Chaldean Church and to the entire Christian community", reaffirming his "condemnation for an act of inhuman violence which offends the dignity of human beings and seriously damages the cause of the fraternal coexistence of the beloved Iraqi people".

  Benedict XVI gives assurances of his prayers for the archbishop "who was kidnapped just after he had completed the Way of the Cross" and invokes the Lord's mercy "that this tragic event may serve to build a future of peace in the martyred land of Iraq".

  Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. also released the following declaration today:

  "We had all continued to hope and pray for his release, something the Pope had requested on a number of occasions in his appeals.

  "Unfortunately the most senseless and unjustified violence continues to be inflicted on the Iraqi people, and especially on the small Christian community to which the Pope and all of us are particularly close in prayer and solidarity at this moment of great suffering.

  "It is to be hoped that this tragic event may once more - and more powerfully - underline the responsibility of everyone, and especially of the international community, for the pacification of so troubled a country".

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