"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

Lübnan Marunîleri / Yasin Atlıoğlu

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Metropolitan Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim elected Syriac Orthodox Patriarch- SANA

Damascus, (SANA) Metropolitan Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim was elected as the 123rd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East, succeeding the late Zakka I Iwas.

The elections took place on Monday in the patriarchate headquarters in the towns of al-Atshana in Lebanon, and the ordainment ceremony will be conducted later in Damascus.

Aphrem Karim was born in Qamishli city in Hasaka province, Syria, in 1965. He was the Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Eastern United States of America, and before that he was the secretary of late Patriarch Iwas.

Patriarch Iwas passed away on March 21st in a medical center in Germany and was interred in Mar Aphrem Monetary in Sednaya, Damascus Countryside.

http://sana.sy/eng/21/2014/03/31/536327.htm