Posts Tagged ‘Fr Francois Mourad’

Priests in Syria stay with people despite risks of war

Friday, June 28th, 2013

Priests in Syria are choosing to stay with their people despite the death of a monk who was killed by Islamist rebels involved in the country’s civil war. Father Francois Mourad died at the Franciscan monastery of Saint Anthony of Padua, near the Turkish border, while trying to defend nuns and local Christians who had Read more