There has been no news of Jesuit priest Fr.
Dall’Oglio since 12 August and the wait is becoming hard to bear for his
family, his fellow Jesuits and all those who know the “Abuna” and how
big his heart is.
“We haven’t had any news from him unfortunately. What’s new is being completely in the dark and not knowing anything,” the Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said, referring to Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio, the Jesuit who went missing in Syria at the end of July. There has been no news from him since.
At the end of the interreligious International Meeting for Peace organised by the Community of St. Egidio, Sandri said: “The other day I received the Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, John X, who is the brother of one of the two bishops who were kidnapped. He told me he hadn’t had any news either. The only weapon we have is to pray for them and for all religious figures and civilians who have been kidnapped. I should remind you that we also have two priests who were kidnapped in Aleppo and no news from them either.”
In its October issue, Missioni Consolata published the contents of an intense conversation that took place between Daniele Biella and the Jesuit priest.
Fr. Dall’Oglio’s statements were recorded before his disappearance in Syria and are mainly about the dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam.