{"id":69704,"date":"2016-02-15T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69704"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:32:57","slug":"a-conversation-with-mother-agnes-mariam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/a-conversation-with-mother-agnes-mariam\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Mother Agnes Mariam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jan 26, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Robinson speaks to Mother Agnes Mariam about the situation in Syria, the media coverage of it and both the political peace process and her own Reconciliation Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oNfBlzwWFnc<br \/>\n<em>Mother Agn\u00e8s-Mariam of the Cross:<\/em><em> President,\u00a0International Support Team for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria<\/em><em>. F<\/em><em>rom Palestinian father and Lebanese mother; Lebanese and French nationalities. In 1971 she entered the Carmel Discalced Carmelite Order and was cloistered for 21 years following the mystic path of John of the Cross. She is the Abbot of the 6<sup>th<\/sup> century <\/em><em>Monastery of Saint Jacques the Mutilated<\/em><em> in Qara, Syria<\/em><em>, restored by her but destroyed recently by invading mercenary jihadists fighting the Syrian government. Founder of the Order of the Unit of Antioch, <\/em><em>Melkite Greek Catholic Church.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>(TMS Editor\u2019s Note: Mother Agnes was the organizer and leader, along with Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire, of the Peace Mission to Beirut and Damascus in which I participated in May 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/05\/on-the-road-to-damascus\/\" >[my report here<\/a>] \u2013 Antonio C. S. Rosa)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 26, 2016 &#8211; Mike Robinson speaks to Mother Agnes Mariam about the situation in Syria, the media coverage of it and both the political peace process and her own Reconciliation Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}