The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation urged on Saturday an “unconditional” release of two Christian bishops kidnapped this week in Syria.

OIC secretary general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned the kidnapping on Monday of Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos Yaziji and Syriac Orthodox Bishop Yohanna Ibrahim by armed men as they were en route to the northern city from the Turkish border.

He called in a statement for their “immediate and unconditional release because such act contradicts the principles of true Islam, and the (high) status held for Christian clergymen in Islam.”   »»» THE DAILY STAR (Lebanon)

In the Qur’an, God says: [Among the non-Muslims,] “you will find that the nearest in love to the Believers are those who say ‘We are Christians.’ Because among them are men devoted to learning [priests and bishops] and men who have renounced the world [monks], and they are not arrogant.” (Q. 5-82

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