21.06.2012 | report from the NY TIMES
on the current situation in the monastery Mar Musa
Syria Expels Jesuit Priest Who Spoke for Change
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thick wooden beams barred the doors of St. Cyril’s Church in Damascus when friends of Bassel Shahade, a young opposition filmmaker killed in Homs in late May, arrived for a memorial prayer service. Government thugs dragged some mourners off to jail and chased away the rest, according to activists.
The leadership of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church did not intervene, they said. But the