Priest kidnapped in Iraq: "Hopefully it will not kill him," says the Chaldean Patriarch
Twenty days after the disappearance of Father Hanna Saad Syrop
BAGHDAD, Monday, 4 September 2006 ( ZENIT.org ) .- The days pass with no news of Father Hanna Saad Syrop - 34 years old - kidnapped in Iraq, raising concerns for him. The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans expressed hope that his life is respected and it is released as soon as possible. In
Marian feast of the Assumption, August 15 Last, the vehicle of the Chaldean priest was stopped by three armed men with their faces covered, while returning home after celebrating Mass in the church of St. Jacob in Baghdad's district of Al Dora.
few days later, Benedict XVI himself has expressed his sympathy to the suffering of the Iraqi victims and called on the kidnappers for the release of the priest.
Saturday missionary agency "Misna" it was reported that the seizure was able to telephone the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly - as he has confirmed from Baghdad -. "I am the father Syrop - told him - I'm in good health and are in the hands of the men who kidnapped me. "
"I look forward to seven days, but nothing yet," added Monsignor Delly explaining that at the end of the conversation with the kidnappers Syrop father assured the Patriarch that would immediately free the hostage.
"It's exactly a week since I have not heard from him. We hope that they let themselves go as soon as possible and hopefully not kill him, "he said.
The call of the priest was on 26 August. The kidnappers, in previous contacts, had demanded a huge ransom for his father Syrop.
According to the Archbishop of Kirkuk - in the north-east of Iraq - Monsignor Louis Sako, it was of one million U.S. dollars as quoted a statement of Aid to the Church in Need ". Already
August 22, His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly had confirmed to "Misna:" They want money. I do not know how many. But who took the "priest" does not even have the slightest idea that the Chaldean Church is a missionary Church that follows his faithful when migrating in the world and lives of donations and the generosity of its faithful. "
Meanwhile there is a continuing deep concern in the Christian community in Baghdad for what happened, usually because the seizures that involved men in the country were very short.
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Twenty days after the disappearance of Father Hanna Saad Syrop
BAGHDAD, Monday, 4 September 2006 ( ZENIT.org ) .- The days pass with no news of Father Hanna Saad Syrop - 34 years old - kidnapped in Iraq, raising concerns for him. The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans expressed hope that his life is respected and it is released as soon as possible. In
Marian feast of the Assumption, August 15 Last, the vehicle of the Chaldean priest was stopped by three armed men with their faces covered, while returning home after celebrating Mass in the church of St. Jacob in Baghdad's district of Al Dora.
few days later, Benedict XVI himself has expressed his sympathy to the suffering of the Iraqi victims and called on the kidnappers for the release of the priest.
Saturday missionary agency "Misna" it was reported that the seizure was able to telephone the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly - as he has confirmed from Baghdad -. "I am the father Syrop - told him - I'm in good health and are in the hands of the men who kidnapped me. "
"I look forward to seven days, but nothing yet," added Monsignor Delly explaining that at the end of the conversation with the kidnappers Syrop father assured the Patriarch that would immediately free the hostage.
"It's exactly a week since I have not heard from him. We hope that they let themselves go as soon as possible and hopefully not kill him, "he said.
The call of the priest was on 26 August. The kidnappers, in previous contacts, had demanded a huge ransom for his father Syrop.
According to the Archbishop of Kirkuk - in the north-east of Iraq - Monsignor Louis Sako, it was of one million U.S. dollars as quoted a statement of Aid to the Church in Need ". Already
August 22, His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly had confirmed to "Misna:" They want money. I do not know how many. But who took the "priest" does not even have the slightest idea that the Chaldean Church is a missionary Church that follows his faithful when migrating in the world and lives of donations and the generosity of its faithful. "
Meanwhile there is a continuing deep concern in the Christian community in Baghdad for what happened, usually because the seizures that involved men in the country were very short.
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