We bid a final farewell to Archbishop Hilarion Capucci

The Syrian, Palestinian and Arab world together mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, a resistance figure of towering stature for freedom, dignity and independence until the end of his 94 years. He was brought from exile in Rome to Mount Lebanon, where he grew up, after the Zionist occupiers refused his wish to return to the soil of Jerusalem in occupied Palestine for his soul to rest in the eternal journey.

In word, spirit and deed, Archbishop Cappucci was a resistance fighter, defending Palestine and Syria, and his name will be remembered with that of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam, the son of the Syrian coastal town of Jableh, in the resistance to the occupation of the British colonizers and the Zionist terrorists who remain on the land of Palestine. He realized the danger of the plot against Syria and the region, and bravely stood up in support of Syria, its government and people against foreign invaders, and in the last weeks of his life, he and his native Aleppo were rewarded with liberation, in a heroic defense of Syrian integrity.

 
Until his last breath, Archbishop and resistance fighter Hilarion Cappucci spent his life in the defense of peace, love and freedom, and championed the dispossessed, the oppressed and the tortured, personally paying the price in the prisons of the occupation and in exile.  He stressed the role that should be played by the clergy in the struggle for the protection of humanity, reminding the church of the inspiring role played by the clergy in South America who aligned with the resistance and with their people in the face of brutality and imperial hubris, which is the role played by the Islamic resistance in Lebanon in the face of the Zionist state of settler colonialism in occupied Palestine.