As a follow-up to a blog I made the other day, “Islamist rebels control Monastery of St Thecla, Maaloula, Syria,” there is this call for spiritual closeness, prayer, for the plight of the Syrian nuns and some lay collaborators by Pope Francis.
Read the brief note here. Listen to the brief Vatican Radio report is here.
Here is the perspective of Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo (Audo is the bishop for the Chaldeans).
A few other reports have been filed on AsiaNews.it: here and here.
Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for the nuns and all Christians in Syria.
Saint Ephrem the Syrian, pray for us.