Fr Frans van der Lugt
Posted on 04/08/2014 3:03:39 AM PDT by markomalley
A Muslim gunman saw a jesuit priest named Fr. Frans van der Lugt in the Syrian city of Homs, opened fire on him and shot him to death. He was killed in the Bustan al-Diwan neighbourhood.
Fr Frans van der Lugt
He was trapped in the city, alongside numerous other Christians and Muslims, who were all suffering of mass starvation. He lived in Syria for fifty years, and refused to leave his flock. Just a few months before he was murdered, he stated:
As long as there is one person from our community left here, I will stay with them.
Fr. Frans van der Lugt was not a hireling, who flees as soon as the wolves come, but a shepherd who dies for his sheep.
Millions of Christians fled Iraq to Syria because they knew Assad protected Christians. Very few places they could have gone in the Middle East where they were protected.
More Satanic evil. RIP.
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