Journalist Friends of Fr. Dall’Oglio: this is the name of the association born two years after the kidnapping of Jesuit missionary Father Paul Dall’Oglio in Raqqa, Syria on 29 July 2013. The group, made up of his friends in the world of journalism, wants to keep alive his effort to bring about dialogue between cultures and religions, as well as his commitments in the civic, social and spiritual fields.
You can kidnap a person but you can’t stifle that person’s thought: this is the message of the new association. “Those who kidnapped Fr. Paul,” says one of its members, “have not stifled his witness to faith, his spirit of commitment or his service.”