Mother Agnes Warned against Systematic Expulsion of Christians from Syria

BEIRUT,(ST)_ Team Leader of  the Catholic Information Center Mother Agnes Mary al-Saleeb stressed  that  nuns of  Mar Takla monastery who were abducted by armed terrorist gangs from  Maloula are kidnapped , rather than being  held.

In  a radio interview yesterday , mother Agnes said that , “The  broadcast video, which had shown the nuns   constituted in  itself a media scandal, adding that there is always a tendentious TV channels that stand beside  such operations.”

She added:  “This is against the profession  and human rights.  I am surprised  that no one  raised the voice to ask a media as such  to refrain from inciting crime and kidnapping,” noting that the nuns were forced to speak in this way and  that the biggest proof on  that they are forced is the  disappearance of the Cross from  their chests . ”

Mother Agnes indicated that there is a systematic  expulsion of  Christians in Syria from their own country and hometown,  because there are villages that were not taking a position concerning  the war of aggression against Syria and were  invaded,  revealing that the issue  has become global and there is a systematic program and a will hidden by a global  external cover to erase the traces of ancient civilizations in the region for  evil motives..

One  armed terrorist group attacked earlier this month the monastery of Mar Takla  in Maloula of Rural Damascus and detained the head of the monastery Lagia Sayyaf and several  nuns who work in the convent and its affiliated orphanage,   and  carried out acts of killing and destruction in the city.

The Vatican Pope Francis made an appeal for the release of the nuns and all the people who were kidnapped in Syria.

T. Fateh