Video introduction
Dear friends
We thank very much Yasmin Fedda and Dan Gorman for this introduction of our community.
Mar Musa from Yaz Silver on Vimeo.
Letter to the Friends of Deir Mar Musa, Christmas 2024
Letter to the Friends of Mar Musa Al- Habashi Monastery , 2024
A Christmas Letter to the Friends of the community al-Khalil, Deir Mar Musa
Here is the Angel Gabriel who carries the Good News to my saddened country, in a time in which all his children need a new birth ; icon by Nada Sarkis.
Letter to the Friends of al-Khalil Community at Sulaymaniya, November 23rd, 2012
Deir Maryam el-Adhra, Sulaymaniah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Letter to the Friends of al-Khalil Community
November 23rd, 2012
Dear Friends,
May this letter reach you in the Lord’s peace, and the happiness and peace of your families and occupations.
Houla, 29. May 2012
Mariyam al-Aadhra Church, Sulaymaniya-Iraq, 29 May 2012
Houla
Last Friday and Saturday, I watched with complete bewilderment the news. I asked myself sincerely if this is the same country that I have known for nineteen years and in which I lived ten years. Was it really the same country I left some months ago for my new mission here in Kurdish Iraq.
I have known Syria as a country with friendly people who love to drink tea or maté with each other, the land of profoundly religious persons who deeply respect the religion of their neighbors.
Deir Mar Musa: News about F. Paolo Dall'Oglio
Dear Friends,
We greet all of you and thank you for your solidarity. We called today Father Paolo who is at the moment in the town of Qsayr and has confirmed to us that he is staying well.
We tell you this because in Syria there is ciculating an sms message that a monk was injured the town of Qsayr. We hope that it is just a hoax and if it should be true we wish the to us unknown hurt monk, as all injured of Syria, a swift recovery and a total restoration of health.
To our dear friends on the occasion of Easter 2012
Translation from Arabic
Easter comes after a year of untold suffering, unpredictable and unimaginable for most of us. Unfortunately, what we wrote on the same occasion a year ago still applies to the current situation of our unhappy country. At that time, we had expressed our solidarity with the victims of the conflict and our participation in the expectation of those who were hoping for a deep reform of Syria without falling into the logic of violence, and fearing the explosion of civil war and loss of national unity. Misfortune has reached us and we fear the worst.
Christmas Letter from Iraqi Kurdistan
Christmas Letter from Iraqi Kurdistan
Kirkuk, December 20th, 2011
Dear friends,
Thank you again for the warm welcome I received this fall from the Swiss and Italian members of the associations of friends of our monastic community. It felt good to have you near. Many thanks also for your numerous expressions of solidarity in these turbulent times for the Middle East. Our website's statistics and our “inbox” that you are following us attentive, thank you! The Middle East, and especially Syria, really needs much prayer and solidarity. We are witnessing a continuous rise of violence, and we cannot but call with all our energy to non-violence and reconciliation.
Interview by Victor Edwin SJ
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
Mar Musa or Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi literally The Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian is a monastic community Syriac Catholic rite, situated near the town of Nabk, approximately 80 kilometers north of Damascus. Paolo Dall’Oglio SJ is the leader of this community and Sebastien Duhaut is an inmate of the monastery. Both Paolo and Sebastien tell Victor Edwin SJ about the present situation in Syria for Jivan. Read interview...