Path to Peace Award Honors Slain Iraqi Archbishop

(09 June 09 - RV) Tonight in a ceremony in New York, the Path to Peace Foundation will bestow posthumously the 2009 Path to Peace Award to Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, of Mosul, Iraq.
 
The agency which was established to carry out projects to support the work of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations is honouring Archbishop Rahho’s commitment to promoting peace and religious freedom.

On February 29, 2008, gunmen kidnapped the Archbishop outside his church in Mosul as he drove home after he had finished celebrating a prayer service.

After two weeks of searching, officials were informed that the Archbishop had died and told where to find his body.

We spoke to Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio and, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, and President of the Path to Peace Foundation...