{"id":28583,"date":"2013-06-25T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proterrasancta.org\/?p=28583"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:04:21","slug":"syria-father-francois-mourad-is-killed-in-a-franciscan-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.proterrasancta.org\/en\/syria-father-francois-mourad-is-killed-in-a-franciscan-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Father Fran\u00e7ois Mourad is killed in a Franciscan monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhen Father F. arrived to the monastery he found the frightened sisters, and the murdered friar on the ground.\u201d <strong>Father Fran\u00e7ois Mourad died yesterday in Ghassanieh, in Syria, inside a Franciscan monastery where he had sought refuge some time ago.<\/strong> The circumstances of his death are still not very clear. According to one version a bullet entered the monastery and struck the priest, while other sources maintain that the homicide took place while the monastery was being looted by rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Fran\u00e7ois was born in Syria and was well known in the region. He completed his postulancy at the Custody of the Holy Land in Rome in 1990 and went to Bethlehem for the first year of philosophy. In 1992, wishing to dedicate himself to a more contemplative life, he left the Franciscan Order to enter the Trappist monastery in Latrun. After a short time he left this to return to Syria. \u201cHe often came to the monastery\u201d, we learn from the Friars Minor, \u201cand replaced the friars when they were absent.\u201d With the outbreak of the war he decided to return to the monastery for safety reasons, in order to support himself and those few who remained, along with Father Filippo and the Sisters of the Rosary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in the monastery itself, where he felt himself to be most safe, that he was killed. In the letter that Father Halim, the head of the St. Paul Region, sent to the brothers in Jerusalem, he issued an appeal to the West not to aid the anti-Assad rebels who are supporting the religious extremists that are responsible for a number of attacks against the Christian minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOtherwise\u201d, he concluded, \u201cthere will be no Christians left in Syria.\u201d Those who are living these dramatic hours are also certain of this. From Jerusalem the Custos has issued a call to celebrate requiem masses. \u201cLet us pray\u201d, Father Pizzaballa wrote, \u201cthat this absurd and shameful war will soon be over and that the people of Syria will soon be able to return to their normal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen Father F. arrived to the monastery he found the frightened sisters, and the murdered friar on the ground.\u201d Father Fran\u00e7ois Mourad died yesterday in Ghassanieh, in Syria, inside a Franciscan monastery where he had sought refuge some time ago. The circumstances of his death are still not very clear. 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