Pray for the Safety of Abducted Bishops

Metropolitan Paul of Aleppo

His Eminence Metropolitan Philip is saddened to report that, in a telephone discussion that he had today with His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, it was learned that Metropolitan Paul (Yazigi), Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese Of Aleppo, and the brother of His Beatitude, as well as Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Archdiocese of Aleppo, were both abducted by terrorists in a suburb of Aleppo as they were returning from Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) to Aleppo.

The deacon who was driving their automobile was shot and killed in the attack. As you know, Syria has been suffering from these acts of terror for more than 4 years.

See petition for action here.

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Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Archdiocese of Aleppo

Source: Pray for the Safety of Abducted Bishops | Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese

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