The Vatican nuncio to Syria has said that the war in Syria is like a factory churning out nothing but death, destruction and suffering.
Archbishop Mario Zenari said that even though the Vatican was unable to confirm recent reports that a Jesuit priest had been kidnapped in Syria, the nuncio said hundreds of innocent people there find themselves abducted for political leverage or economic extortion.
Kidnappings in Syria represent “a very, very painful wound that deeply harms the nation and the Syrian people,” he said.
Italian Jesuit Fr Paolo Dall’Oglio, 59, who had spent more than 30 years promoting Muslim-Christian dialogue in Syria, was reportedly missing.
News reports said acquaintances had been unable to reach him by phone, and Reuters reported that militants with links to al-Qaida kidnapped the priest on Monday while he was walking in the northern Syrian city of al-Raqqah.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/08/01/syria-is-now-a-factory-churning-out-nothing-but-death-destruction-and-suffering-says-archbishop/