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Fluent in Arabic, Italian, French, and English, Fr. Ragheed served as a correspondent for the international agency “Asia News” of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.<ref>http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/145921?eng=y Accessed September 5, 2012</ref>

Fr. Ragheed was finishing his degree in Rome when the Iraq war broke out. Fr. Ragheed had received permission from his bishop to return to the ''Angelicum'' in Rome to work on a doctorate in ecumenism. In a prewar interview he expressed his opposition to the invasion of Iraqi fearing that Iraqi Christians would be targeted and persecuted. He looked forward to returning to his native land to serve the Church and people there. He did so after [[Saddam Hussein]] was ousted from power in 2003.<ref>http://www.fides.org/eng/documents/dossier_missionari_ucisi_2007.doc</ref>

==A Chaldean Martyr==

[[File:Ragheed Ganni Chaldean Mass Chennai India 2015.jpg|thumb|Father Ragheed Ganni Remembrance Mass in Chennai India by Christians of India, October 2015]]