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Père Paolo Dall'Oglio au monastere de Deir Mar Moussa,
Ce reportage date de 2004. Cet ete la, j etais missionne par le CCFD pour suivre un groupe de jeunes en voyage d immersion, au Liban et en Syrie. Nous avons passe deux petites journees dans ce monastere. . Nous avons assiste a une messe dans l eglise taillee dans la roche. Et puis nous sommes repartis. Quelques annees plus tard, quand la guerre a demarre en Syrie, j ai pense a ce lieu. Et puis il y a eu l enlevement, la disparition du Pere Paolo Dall Oglio.
Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, Deir Mar Moussa, Syria
This story was made in 2004. That summer, I was commissioned to follow a group of young people on an immersion trip to Lebanon and Syria. We spent two short days in this monastery in Syria. And then we left. A few years later, when the war started in Syria, I thought about this place. And then there was the kidnapping, the disappearance of Father Paolo Dall'Oglio. It touched me. And I did not show those pictures. No special reasons.
Deir Mar Moussa, in French "Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian", stands about 90 km north of Damascus in Syria. 13 km from Nebek, a small road leads to the foot of the cliff where is perched Mar Moussa, then climb the stone stairs about twenty minutes. After having long been abandoned, the monastery was revived in the late twentieth century and houses a small double Western Syriac rite ecumenical religious community who advocates dialogue between religions and revives the tradition of hospital monks. In 1982 the young Italian Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio arrives at the ruins of Deir Mar Moussa. He settles there for a ten-day spiritual retreat and discovers three priorities: prayer, manual work, and hospitality. The Muslim-Christian rapprochement imposes itself on him as a necessity. In 1984, he was ordained priest of Syriac Catholic rite and will work to raise the walls, first with the only contest of local volunteers and some European participants in summer camps of work and prayer. In 1991, with the deacon Jacques Mourad, Paolo founded "officially" under the authority of the Syriac Catholic Church dual monastic community, men and women, dedicated to four tasks: prayer, work, hospitality and dialogue. The choice of the Arabic language in the liturgical and social life emphasizes the integration of the community in the Syrian context, at the service of the inter-religious dialogue which is also the main theme of the library. Volunteers share the lives of sisters and brothers sometimes a few days, weeks, sometimes months or even years.
Paolo had to leave Mar Moussa and Syria in June 2012 after receiving a notice from the Syrian authorities and having his residence permit revoked. He returns clandestinely several times. In September 2013, the community of Mar Musa monastery and visitors to alert the fate of Paolo Dall'Oglio, who has not been heard from since 28 July 2013. He disappeared near Raqqa, the northern Syria as he sought to contact an Islamist group to negotiate the release of hostages.