Missing deeply Syria’s love and peace, he who witnessed violence was by force deported from this world to put an end to the Italian priest’s story. It’s the priest Paolo Dall'Oglio, a vocal supporter of the Syrian uprising.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria have killed Father Paolo who disappeared in the east of the country late last month.
The Syrian Observatory cited local activists in the city of Raqqa with close links to Dall'Oglio as saying he was killed while being held by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The Observatory urged all Syrian opposition forces to pressure the ISIL fighters to reveal exactly what happened "so his killers can be held to account".
The priest had served at the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, or Deir Mar Moussa, before being expelled from the country in 2012. Since then he had returned to Syria at least twice.
He was instrumental in restoring Deir Mar Moussa that houses an 11th century fresco.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria have killed Father Paolo who disappeared in the east of the country late last month.
The Syrian Observatory cited local activists in the city of Raqqa with close links to Dall'Oglio as saying he was killed while being held by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The Observatory urged all Syrian opposition forces to pressure the ISIL fighters to reveal exactly what happened "so his killers can be held to account".
The priest had served at the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, or Deir Mar Moussa, before being expelled from the country in 2012. Since then he had returned to Syria at least twice.
He was instrumental in restoring Deir Mar Moussa that houses an 11th century fresco.
