Posted on 10/26/2012 7:14:36 AM PDT by NYer
BEIRUT -- A Greek Orthodox priest has been found slain after being kidnapped near the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Syrian government and the Vatican news service reported Thursday.
The body of the Rev. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of St. Elias Church in Qatana, outside Damascus, was discovered in the Jaramana district of the capital, reported Agenzia Fides, the Vatican news service. The site was not far from the area where he was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group" last Friday, the agency said.
The Vatican agency quoted a colleague saying the priest had been horribly tortured.
The official Syrian news service said the priest was found with a gunshot wound to his head. The government news agency blamed the crime on terrorists, its usual characterization of the armed opposition fighting to oust President Bashar Assad.
According to the official account, the priest was abducted while seeking the release of another person who had been kidnapped by militants.
But it was not clear if the priests slaying was political, sectarian or criminal in nature. Many Syrians have complained of a breakdown in law and order and a spike in kidnapping for ransom and other crimes as security has deteriorated. Opportunistic criminals have moved to take advantage of the nation's security void.
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When he is raised up on The Last Day, he will mourn for the souls of his torturers and murderers as they are consigned to Hell.
Eternal Rest grant unto him, Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul rest in peace.
Just checked multiple sources and the priest is indeed Orthodox. Christianity, as practiced in the Middle East, often poses these quandaries. I am Roman Catholic but practice my faith in a Maronite Church. Among our parishioners, are Melkites who celebrate with us because there is no Melkite Church in this area. We also have Maronite families that have married Syrian Orthodox christians. They go back and forth between both churches to celebrate major events.
Who is Fr Fadi Haddad, the Priest who was Killed by Terrorists in Qatana?
Father Fadi Jamil Haddad was born in the city of Qatana on February 2, 1969, to zealous Christian parents, Jamil Haddad and Wadia el-Ayn. He studied in schools in Qatana, elementary school at el-Thaura School and middle and high school at Baath Secondary School for Boys.
After obtaining his secondary diploma, he studied at the Saint John of Damascus Theological Institute at Balamand in Lebanon, from which he graduated with good grades in 1994. He married and was ordained deacon in the Maryamiyya Cathedral in Damascus during the celebration of the name's day of His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim.
During the liturgy on July 14, 1995 His Beatitude and Bishop Elias Kfoury, who was the patriarchal vicar and is now metropolitan of Sidon, Tyre, Marjayoun, and Rashaya el-Wadi, laid hands on him, ordaining him to the priesthood.
He took up service in the parish of Qatana as the cornerstone was being laid for the new church by His Beatitude. Father Fadi Haddad was a son of the Qatana parish and participated in the founding of the Orthodox Sunday School there along with other pious sons of the parish and with the help of priests who would come to Qatana, including Father Nicholas Baalbaki and Father Georges Baalbaki.
Terrorists assassinated Father Fadi Haddad, pastor of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Elias in Qatana, some days after his being kidnapped in the new town, Artouz, by a group of armed terrorists.
A source with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Damascus stated that Father Haddad's body was found shot in the head near Drousha on the Damascus-Quneitra highway.
Fadi Haddad was priest of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Elias in Qatana in the outskirts of Damascus.
One of the residents of the city told Agence France-Presse that the body was found in the town of Drousha, near Qatana and Damascus, indicating that he was murdered.
He stated that the priest was acting as an intermediary for a doctor from Qatana who was kidnapped over ten days ago. He was communicating with the kidnappers, who demanded from the family more than 50 million lira ($700,000) to release him.
Muslims are jealous of Christians....real Christians are happy, content, loving, enjoying all that life brings including sex.....Muslims are so confined in their little manhood insecurities that they accept others being wistfully happy with life...
how is Michelle doing?.....hope she is ahead and wins....
well, happier, I have to say I am a Christian and I am pretty miserable
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
Satanic islam death cult
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