A Catholic monk has been kidnapped from a monastery in Qaryatayn, Syria.

Father Jacques Mourad, the prior of the Mar Elias monastery, was seized by armed men representing an Islamic rebel group. The monastery is branch of a monastic community that was re-established by the Italian Jesuit missionary, Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, who was himself kidnapped in July 2013 and is still missing.

Father Mourad had recently expressed concern about jihadist activity in the vicinity of the monastery, which is located near the city of Homs, a possible target for the rebels. During the past week the monastery had welcomed many refugees from Palmyra, a city being overrun by the Islamic State.

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Let us pray for him that he be faithful to the Catholic Faith

 

An Iraqi Franciscan priest was seized by Islamic militants from his parish in the Syrian village of Yacoubieh on July 4, the Fides news service reports.

Shortly after Father Dhiya Azziz was taken away, his captors sent two men to his parish home to retrieve his medications—thereby giving an indication that the priest is alive and presumably healthy. But representatives of the Franciscan Custody in the Holy Land said that they had not heard from his captors and did not know the reason for his abduction.

Father Azziz had chosen to remain in Iraq, in a region that had come under the control of jihadist groups in the past, to provide pastoral care for the few remaining Christians in the area.


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I pray that the he remain faithful to the truth that is the Catholic Faith.
 

The Franciscan priest who was abducted in Syria on July 4 has been released unharmed, the AsiaNews service reports.

Father Dhiya Azziz had been seized by armed men from an Islamic militant group— although not from the group originally suspected of the kidnapping. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land noted that “there are a plethora of groups that operate with varied interests.”

The Syrian priest was apparently been kidnapped for ransom, but the Franciscan Custody said that there had been no contact with his captors prior to his release.

While expressing joy at the priest's release, the Franciscan Custody reminded the public that a number of Christian clerics-- including two Orthodox bishops and three Catholic priests-- remain hostages in Syria.

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With all the millions and millions the Conciliar Church has paid out in fines levied due to the child molestion, the Conciliarists could have trained an A Team with a band of Catholic special forces soldiers to go and rescued kidnapped monks.  Instead, they paid the Jєωιѕн lawyers and the liars (many of the child molestation claims were likely lies) and they still don't have an A Team that could call.

Tell it to the heretics of the Sodomist Synod.

The head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land reports that there has been no news about a priest who was kidnapped in Yakubiya, Father Dhiya Aziz had been captured by Islamic militants in July 2015, but escaped. He was seized once again on December 23. Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Franciscan Custos, said that he knows where Father Aziz has been taken-- to "an area of heavy fighting"-- but does not know who is responsible for the abduction. "We realize that someone took him," he said, "but we cannot say who did it or even if he is still alive."

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With all the millions and millions the Conciliar Church has paid out in fines levied due to the child molestion, the Conciliarists could have trained an A Team with a band of Catholic special forces soldiers to go and rescued kidnapped monks.  Instead, they paid the Jєωιѕн lawyers and the liars (many of the child molestation claims were likely lies) and they still don't have an A Team that could call.

Probably more like enough money for every diocese to have its own A Team.