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The Syrian Nuns Have Been Freed! #404053 03/09/14 08:42 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 15 Massachusetts Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member
Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 15 Massachusetts	Nuns freed [aljazeera.com] Thanks be to God! Many years, Neil Last edited by Irish Melkite; 03/09/14 08:43 PM. "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

Re: The Syrian Nuns Have Been Freed! Irish Melkite #404059 03/10/14 03:53 AM
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Re: The Syrian Nuns Have Been Freed! Irish Melkite #404075 03/10/14 09:48 AM
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malphono Member M Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 69 Beth Shelyo	It's more like they were ransomed. Some 150 jihadist prisoners were released in order to secure freedom for the nuns who were kidnapped by their fellows. And we await word of the fate of the two bishops.

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