{"id":27141,"date":"2012-08-27T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/residences-of-maronite-and-mel\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:08:00","slug":"residences-of-maronite-and-mel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/residences-of-maronite-and-mel\/","title":{"rendered":"Residences of Maronite and Melkite Bishops in Aleppo, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishops Youssef Anis Abi-Aad, 72, and Jean-Cl&eacute;ment Jeanbart, 69, have taken refuge in other places since their residences were ransacked in the past few days. Clashes between Assad&#8217;s forces and other groups are to blame. It is said that &#8220;unidentified groups, who want to foster a sectarian war and involve the Syrian people in a sectarian strife.&#8221; Not a much more is known at this point.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Youssef%20Anis%20Abi%20Aad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youssef Anis Abi Aad.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/08\/Youssef Anis Abi Aad-thumb-108x140-12521.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"140\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maronite_Church\" title=\"Maronite Church\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Maronite<\/a> Archbishop&nbsp;Youssef Anis Abi-Aad (left) said his residence and a local Christian museum were ransacked destroying personal and professional affects including icons.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Jean-Cl%C3%A9ment%20Jeanbart.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jean-Cl&eacute;ment Jeanbart.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/08\/Jean-Cl&eacute;ment Jeanbart-thumb-150x150-12522.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Melkite Archbishop&nbsp;Jean-Cl&eacute;ment Jeanbart (right) and some of his priests went to Lebanon in the face of violence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is reported that Christians make up about 7.5 to 10% of the Syrian 20 million population.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both Maronite and <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melkite\" title=\"Melkite\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Melkite Churches<\/a> are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We pray,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>O God, author and lover of peace, to know you is to live, to serve you is reign; defend against every attack those who cry to you, so that we, who trust in your protection, may not fear the weapons of any foe.<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=f0d0a3dd-afb7-4141-9ba1-9587f7a438b1\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishops Youssef Anis Abi-Aad, 72, and Jean-Cl&eacute;ment Jeanbart, 69, have taken refuge in other places since their residences were ransacked in the past few days. Clashes between Assad&#8217;s forces and other groups are to blame. It is said that &#8220;unidentified groups, who want to foster a sectarian war and involve the Syrian people in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/residences-of-maronite-and-mel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Residences of Maronite and Melkite Bishops in Aleppo, Syria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1712,1974,2477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}