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By Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service
11.13.2015 11:11 AM ET
*BEIRUT (CNS) – When a man dressed head-to-toe in black entered the room where Father Jacques Mourad was being held by the Islamic State, the Syriac Catholic priest thought his time to become a martyr had come.
*“That moment was really intense and difficult,” he recalled.
It was eight days after Father Mourad’s May abduction by the Islamic State from Qaryatain, Syria, where he served as prior of the ancient Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery. The militants also kidnapped Boutros, a deacon. Together they spent 84 days in captivity. Read full story here…
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11.13.2015 11:11 AM ET
*BEIRUT (CNS) – When a man dressed head-to-toe in black entered the room where Father Jacques Mourad was being held by the Islamic State, the Syriac Catholic priest thought his time to become a martyr had come.
*“That moment was really intense and difficult,” he recalled.
It was eight days after Father Mourad’s May abduction by the Islamic State from Qaryatain, Syria, where he served as prior of the ancient Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery. The militants also kidnapped Boutros, a deacon. Together they spent 84 days in captivity. Read full story here…
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