Posted on 08/28/2012 6:41:11 AM PDT by marshmallow
ROME: The Melkite Greek Catholic archbishop of Aleppo has fled to Lebanon and his offices in the war-ravaged city have been looted, Vatican media said on Monday, amid fears over the fate of Christian minorities.
Vatican radio and the missionary news agency Fides said Jean-Clement Jeanbart initially sought refuge with some Franciscan friars in the city on Thursday last week as fighting intensified in Christian quarters of Aleppo.
Within a few hours the archdiocese had been ransacked by "unidentified groups who want to start a religious war and drag the Syrian people into a sectarian conflict," a source in the local Christian community told Fides.
The doors of the archdiocese had been forced open and several objects like computers stolen, the reports said. Jeanbart has since fled to Lebanon.
The Melkites are an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Vatican.
The reports also said the Maronite archdiocese in Aleppo and the Byzantine Christian museum of Maarrat Nahman in the city had also been damaged.
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Prayers for our Eastern Christian brothers and sisters in the middle east.
thought it was the 6th Marx Brothers....had to google it.
Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo, Zeppo, Aleppo.
Syria eh?
Arab Sting
MacBeth, Act I, Scene III
I cannot wait for the day that our Lord is going to deal with these savages. Prayers up for our Christian brothers and sisters.
Any of the moron western Christian congregations still want to embrace Islam?
This is disturbing. I think more is amiss on the assault on Christians in foreign countries than we think. Reports all over the globe suggests that Islam is waging an unholy war against Christians now
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