â??Without Sunday, without the Eucharist the Christians in Iraq cannot surviveâ??: that was how Fr Ragheed spoke of his communityâ??s hope, a community that was used to facing death on a daily basis, that same death that yesterday afternoon faced him, on his way home from saying mass. After having fed his faithful with the Body and Blood of Christ, he gave his own blood, his own life for Iraq, for the future of his Church. This young priest had willingly, knowingly chosen to remain by the side of his parishioners from Holy Spirit parish in Mosul, judged the most dangerous, after Baghdad. His reasoning was simple: without him, without its pastor, his flock would have been lost. In 2003 on finishing his studies in Rome, he decided to return to his country â??that is where I belong, that is my placeâ??.
