{"id":30669,"date":"2014-04-07T08:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30669"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:32:25","slug":"jesuit-priest-murdered-in-homs-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/jesuit-priest-murdered-in-homs-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesuit priest murdered in Homs Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frans-van-der-Lugt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30670 alignleft\" title=\"Frans van der Lugt\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frans-van-der-Lugt.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frans-van-der-Lugt.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frans-van-der-Lugt-142x88.jpeg 142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jesuit Father Alex Bassili, socius to the Provincial of the Jesuits in Middle East Province, reported earlier today, Monday, April 7, 2014, at about 8 am, Jesuit <b>Father Frans van der Lugt<\/b> was been abducted by armed men, who beat him and then murdered with two bullets in the head, in front of the Jesuit residence in Homs, Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2014\/04\/07\/jesuit_priest_\u201cman_of_peace\u201d_killed_in_homs,_syria\/en1-788572\"><strong>Vatican Radio reports<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Father <b>Frans van der Lugt<\/b> (April 10, 1938-April 7, 2014) was born in the Netherlands and entered the Society of Jesus in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>He was missioned to Syria for the last 50 years working in education\u00a0as a psychologist and in a project for handicapped people. With the Syrian civil war Father wanted to remain with the local population in the Centre of Homs as a man of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady, Queen of Peace pray for Father Frans van der Lugt.<br \/>\nSaint Ignatiius, pray for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesuit Father Alex Bassili, socius to the Provincial of the Jesuits in Middle East Province, reported earlier today, Monday, April 7, 2014, at about 8 am, Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt was been abducted by armed men, who beat him and then murdered with two bullets in the head, in front of the Jesuit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/jesuit-priest-murdered-in-homs-syria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesuit priest murdered in Homs 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":[62],"tags":[1838,3186,1931],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30669"}],"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=30669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30673,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30669\/revisions\/30673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}