The Priest
Father Jacques was abducted early in the third week of May 2015. He was sitting in his narrow room in the Mar Elian monastery on the outskirts of the town of Qaryatain in Syria when some armed men from ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah arrived. Islamic State took him hostage. Not many people knew about it.
But the well-known German writer, Navid Kermani, who received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at Frankfurt on October 8 last, did not forget him. He gave special mention to Father Jacques in a splendid speech at the ceremony in Paul Kirche that Sunday.
November 3, 2015
Father Jacques was abducted early in the third week of May 2015. He was sitting in his narrow room in the Mar Elian monastery on the outskirts of the town of Qaryatain in Syria when some armed men from ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah arrived. Islamic State took him hostage. Not many people knew about it.
But the well-known German writer, Navid Kermani, who received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at Frankfurt on October 8 last, did not forget him.
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