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By Louis Knuffke, CatholicVote, December 6, 2024
CV NEWS FEED // Syrian Catholic Archbishop Jacques Mourad, of the Diocese of Homs, Syria, has decried the immense suffering of refugees fleeing the ongoing violence in Aleppo and the impending destruction of Christianity in the region.
In an interview with Agenzia Fides, the news outlet for the Pontifical Missions Society, Archbishop Mourad described the dire situation.
“We are really tired,” he said. “We are really exhausted, and we are also finished, in every sense.”
Archbishop Mourad, a member of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa, was born in Aleppo. He retains cherished memories of the city. As a spiritual son of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, the Jesuit founder of Deir Mar Musa who disappeared in 2013 in ISIS-controlled Raqqa, the Archbishop personally endured the horrors of conflict. He was kidnapped in 2015 by jihadist forces and held captive for months, first in isolation and later alongside 150 other Christians in territories controlled by ISIS. …
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