A Dutch Jesuit priest was abducted and shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the besieged Syrian city of Homs today (April 7, 2014), Dutch media has reported. Armed men took him from his home in the morning and shot him twice in the head, the head of the Jesuit order in the Netherlands said, according to the Independent Catholic News website.
Fr. Frans Van der Lugt, a 75-year-old psychologist, had been living in Syria since 1966. In the 1980s he set up a farming project to help young people with learning difficulties.
In a video appeal made on January 27, 2014, Fr. Van der Lugt warned of the humanitarian suffering of the population in Homs, saying people in Homs were living in misery and starvation, and he appealed to the Red Cross to help to get women and children out of the besieged city.
Speaking in Arabic, he said: "It's impossible that we suffer and the world does nothing."
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