{"id":27806,"date":"2013-06-25T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/father-franois-mourad-syrian-m\/"},"modified":"2013-06-25T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:06:25","slug":"father-franois-mourad-syrian-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/father-franois-mourad-syrian-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Fran\u04abois Mourad, Syrian monk, killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Fr%20Fran%D2%ABois%20Mourad.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fr Fran\u04abois Mourad.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/06\/Fr Fran\u04abois Mourad-thumb-112x150-14673.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Father Fran\u04abois Mourad, 49, a Syrian monk, was killed on June 23, during a raid on the Franciscan monastery of Saint Anthony of Padua in Ghassanieh, a predominantly Christian village in the district of Jisr al-Shughur in the province of Idlib, near the border with Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); min-height: 15px; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #343434\">Father Mourad <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">was trained by the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Land Custody before joining the Trappists for a period of time. His formation as monk with the Trappists eventually led him to be ordained a priest in the Syrian Catholic Church of Al-Hasakah. Following the teaching of Saint Simon, <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #343434\">Father Mourad founded a monastic community in Hwar, in the Aleppo Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #343434\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #343434\">Vatican Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2013\/06\/25\/vatican_mourns_killing_of_monk,_latest_victim_of_syrian_bloodshed\/en1-704677\">has a story here<\/a> and there is another news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Custos-of-the-Holy-Land:-Fr-Fran\u04abois-Mourad-killed-by-Islamist-insurgents-in-al-Ghassaniyah-28294.html\">report<\/a>&nbsp;here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #343434\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #343434\">May&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(52, 52, 52); text-align: justify; \">Father Fran\u04abois Mourad&#8217;s memory be eternal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Fran\u04abois Mourad, 49, a Syrian monk, was killed on June 23, during a raid on the Franciscan monastery of Saint Anthony of Padua in Ghassanieh, a predominantly Christian village in the district of Jisr al-Shughur in the province of Idlib, near the border with Turkey. Father Mourad was trained by the Franciscan Friars of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/father-franois-mourad-syrian-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father Fran\u04abois Mourad, Syrian monk, killed<\/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":[2324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806"}],"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=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}