Other officials were not so lucky. Last June  Chaldean priest Ragheed Ganni and three of his assistants were shot and killed outside the Holy Spirit Church in Mosul. Last June , Pope Benedict commented to George W. Bush about the plight of Iraqi Christians. "Particularly in Iraq, Christian families and communities are feeling increasing pressure from insecurity, aggression and a sense of abandonment," he said. Mosul is the third-largest city in Iraq, behind al-Basrah and Baghdad, and is a center of the oil industry. An ethnically and religiously mixed city, Mosul has roughly 50,000 Christians. The Chaldean church descended from the Nestorian Church. The church's traditional liturgical language is Syriac, which is a descendant of Aramaic, which was supposedly spoken by Jesus and his desciples.
Other officials were not so lucky. Last June , Chaldean priest Ragheed Ganni and three of his assistants were shot and killed outside the Holy Spirit Church in Mosul. In June 2007 , Pope Benedict commented to George W. Bush about the plight of Iraqi Christians. "Particularly in Iraq, Christian families and communities are feeling increasing pressure from insecurity, aggression and a sense of abandonment," he said. Mosul is the third-largest city in Iraq, behind Basra and Baghdad, and is a center for the oil industry. An ethnically and religiously mixed city, Mosul has roughly 50,000 Christians. The Chaldean church descended from the Nestorian Church. The church's traditional liturgical language is Syriac, which is a descendant of Aramaic, which was supposedly spoken by Jesus and his desciples.
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