Family of Jesuit abducted issues appeal on anniversary of his disappearance

Aug 08, 2014

VATICAN: The family of an Italian Jesuit priest who was kidnapped in Syria has issued an appeal, as the anniversary of his disappearance arrives.

Fr Paolo Dall’Oglio was apparently captured near Raqqa, Syria, last July 29. To date, no clear information has emerged about his captors, his whereabouts, or his condition — although several conflicting rumours have circulated during the year.

“We ask those responsible for the disappearance of a good man, a man of faith, a man of peace, to have the dignity to let us know of his fate,” the priest’s family said in their appeal. The statement asked for prayers for Fr Dall’Oglio and “for those who have been kidnapped, unjustly detained and for the many who are suffering because of this war.”

The family’s appeal was posted by the Vatican Information Service. -- CWN