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Une religieuse appelle à la réconciliation

Dec 3, 2013, Journal de Montreal Mère Agnès Mariam était de passage à Montréal mardi, pour conscientiser la population au conflit syrien et en appeler au dialogue. La religieuse catholique melkite de 61 ans d’origine libanaise fait une tournée mondiale pour promouvoir la réconciliation et le pardon et ainsi mettre …

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HEAR MOTHER AGNES MARIAM SPEAK IN MONTREAL DEC 3

Mother Agnes-Mariam of The Cross What is Really Happening in Syria Today? Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross is Mother Superior at the Monastery and Convent of St. James in Qara, Syria. Much of the population in the towns and villages around the monastery have fled and been made refugees. Sheleft …

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Syria foreign-backed militants kidnap 12 nuns in Ma’loula

Dec 3, 2013, Press TV Foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria have kidnapped 12 nuns from a convent in the Christian town of Ma’loula. According to local authorities on Tuesday, the militants took the nuns to the nearby town of Yabrud after they stormed the convent on Monday. There is no …

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Syrian Rebels Kidnap Nuns as They Invade Christian Town of Maaloula Again

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) The ancient Christian city of Maaloula has become the epicenter for fighting between an Al-Qaeda linked rebel group and the Syrian government.

Dec 2, 2013, Christian Post Syrian rebels have reportedly re-entered the historic Christian town of Maaloula, north of the country’s capital of Damascus, this week while battling forces loyal to the country’s President Bashar al-Assad. The rebel forces have been occupying the small, predominately Christian town intermittently for the past …

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VIDEO: France’s Former Foreign Minister: UK Government Prepared War in Syria Two Years Before 2011 Protests

  Jun 15, 2013 France’s Former Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, has stated in a televised program on LCP that UK government officials had told him about preparations for war in Syria two years prior to the start of the 2011 protests and conflict. The reason given for this war is …

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Mother Agnes Mariam: In Her Own Words

Nov 29, 2013, Sharmine Narwani American national security journalist Jeremy Scahill and leftist British columnist Owen Jones announced recently that they would not share a platform with a Palestinian-Lebanese nun at the Stop The War Coalition’s November 30 UK conference. Neither Scahill nor Jones provided any reason for their harsh …

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Syria dispatch: from band of brothers to princes of war

Photo: Reuters

Nov 30, 2013, Telegraph The Free Syrian Army commander leant against the door of his four-wheel drive BMW X5 with tinted windows and watched as his men waded through the river on the Syrian border moving the barrels of smuggled petroleum to Turkey. Feeling the smooth wedge of American bank …

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Controversial nun speaks out on war in Syria

Nov 14, 2013, National Catholic Reporter Mother Agnes Mariam, the Lebanese-born head of St. James the Mutilated Monastery in Qara, Syria, is a controversial figure in the international debate over how to resolve the escalating violence in Syria. Her supporters, including Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, say her message of forgiveness …

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