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Information indicates #Father_Paolo_Dall’Oglio is alive and in #ISIS captivity
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20110

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Member of the Islamist Syrian opposition group Ahrar al-Sham fires against a position of the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG), during clashes in the countryside of the northern Syrian #Raqqa province on August 25, 2013. (Photo: AFP-Alice Martins) Member of the Islamist Syrian opposition group Ahrar al-Sham fires against a position of the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG), during clashes in the countryside of the northern Syrian Raqqa province on August 25, 2013. (Photo: AFP-Alice Martins)

Father Paolo Dall’Oglio has sparked controversy since the beginning of the Syrian crisis. He declared his support for the revolution, visited al-Qusayr rebels and went to the city of (...)

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Daech a exécuté le père Paolo Dall’Oglio, selon un dissident du groupe
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/869474/daech-a-execute-le-pere-paolo-dalloglio-selon-un-dissident-du-groupe.

Le prêtre jésuite italien Paolo Dall’Oglio a été exécuté en prison, a annoncé cette semaine un communiqué de la Ligue syrienne de défense des droits de l’homme, diffusé par la chaîne al-Arabiya. Le communiqué cite un officier dissident de l’État islamique en Irak et à Damas (Daech), Abou Mohammad le Syrien. C’est l’un des hauts responsables de ce groupe à Raqqa qui a personnellement exécuté le prêtre jésuite, après son incarcération au siège du mohafazat, deux heures après son arrestation, le 29 juillet 2013, a précisé le témoin.

Christian priest bears witness to Syrian bloodbath

A Jesuit priest thrown out of Syria for criticizing Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy forces is visiting North America and will be in Toronto Friday and Saturday. He’s bringing a message for fellow Christians and others: It’s un-Christian and immoral to be fretting only or mostly about the possible plight of the Christian minority in post-Assad Syria, while doing little to save the overwhelming majority of Syrians being massacred by the Assad regime.

Rev. Paolo Dall’Oglio says the regime is “ethnic cleansing” those who oppose it, and is sowing sectarian divisions much the same way Slobodan Milosevic did in Bosnia in the 1990s.

Father Paolo is no ordinary priest. He’s world renowned for having dedicated his life to restoring a 6th-century desert mountain monastery in Syria.
►http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1231830--christian-priest-bears-witness-to-syrian-bloodbath

He did so inspired by a Canadian expert on Byzantine and Islamic art.

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