Ousted priest committed to peace in Syria: The Rome-born Jesuit is infuriated by the perception among many Christians that an Assad ouster would lead to an Islamist takeover and ill-treatment of minorities.
Resplendent in black cassock and matching skullcap, the bearded Jesuit appears in a YouTube video breaking bread with opposition activists and donating blood at a makeshift rebel clinic, highlighting his solidarity with the Syrian rebellion.
But Father Paolo Dall?Oglio, a brawny bear of a man who enunciates each word with a theatrical sense of certitude, scoffs at the ?jihad priest? label. He says he remains committed to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in his adopted homeland ? a ?jihad of the spirit, not a jihad of arms,? as he declared during a recent stay in the rebel-occupied Syrian town of Qusair.
Still, the Italian-born priest warns: ?If nonviolence becomes another name for a lack of responsibility, then I am not with nonviolence anymore. I am with the right to defend people.?
Photo: Father Paolo Dall?Oglio talks to a visitor in the courtyard of the restored Byzantine Monastery Deir Mar Musa al Habashi (St. Moses the Abyssinian). Credit: Louai Beshara / AFP/Getty Images
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