Posted on 10/16/2015 6:28:17 AM PDT by marshmallow
Father Jacques Mourad credited the Virgin Mary and a Muslim friend for his rescue.
HOMS, Syria — A Syrian priest captured by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in May thought he would die for his faith. Now, he credits the Virgin Mary and the help of a Muslim friend for his escape.
“This is the miracle the Good Lord gave me — while I was a prisoner I was waiting for the day I would die, but with a great inner peace,” the Syriac Catholic priest, Father Jacques Mourad, told Italian TV 2000. “I had no problem dying for the name of Our Lord; I wouldn’t be the first or the last, just one of the thousands of the martyrs for Christ.”
“I want to thank all those who prayed for my liberation,” he added. “It’s truly a miracle that a priest has been freed from the hands of the Islamic State. A miracle that the Virgin Mary worked for me.”
Father Mourad was prior of the Monastery of Mar Elian in the Syrian town of Al Qaryatayn, about 60 miles southeast of Homs.
He said he was captured with another young man on May 21 after ISIS militants arrived at the monastery.
The first four days we were in the mountains, locked up in the monastery’s car we were captured in,” he said. “On Aug. 11 we were taken to near Palmyra, where there are 250 other Christian prisoners from the city of Al Qaryatayn.”
The Islamic State had captured Al Quaryatayn Aug. 6. Only close to 30 Christians were able to escape the town for Homs after it was captured.
Father Mourad said that his captors regularly asked him to declare his faith:
“Almost every day there was someone who came to my prison and asked me ‘what......
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Glad to see him free... but
“A Syrian priest captured by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in May thought he would die for his faith. Now, he credits the Virgin Mary and the help of a Muslim friend for his escape.”
...howsabout givin’ God some of the credit.
Who are you to judge the man’s faith?
... howsabout readin' the bloody article?
At the Wedding Feast at Cana. Mary said to the attendant's Do Whatever He(Jesus) Tells you. Listen To Him!
Now he can return the favor and save his Muslim friend. :D
Through the prayers of the saints living in glory with GOD, the later who does answers prayers.
Have you EVER known ANY media organization to give credit to God for ANYTHING? Beyond creation, that is...and that was "merely" six days of effort. :o)
Yes. TBN and EWTN :)
Good to know.
I would have expected it of both of them but the major networks DO NOT want to even WHISPER about a Catholic priest doing anything even remotely good, that is, escaping ISIS.
THANKS for the update. Forgot to say that in my first post.
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