Paolo Dall'Oglio was born on November 17,1954 and is an Italian Jesuit priest and peace activist.
14 Facts About Paolo Dall'Oglio
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Paolo Dall'Oglio was exiled from Syria by the government in 2012 for meeting with members of the opposition and criticizing the alleged actions of the Syrian government during the Syrian civil war.
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Paolo Dall'Oglio was kidnapped by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on 29 July 2013.
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Paolo Dall'Oglio spent his novitiate in Italy before starting university studies of Arabic language and Islamic studies in Beirut, Lebanon, and Damascus, Syria.
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In 1984, Dall'Oglio was ordained priest in the Syriac Catholic rite.
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Paolo Dall'Oglio wrote his doctoral dissertation on the topic "About Hope in Islam".
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In 2009, Paolo Dall'Oglio obtained the double honorary doctorate of the Universite catholique de Louvain and the KU Leuven.
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Paolo Dall'Oglio contributed regularly to the magazine "Popoli", the international magazine of the Italian Jesuits, established in 1915.
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In 2011, Paolo Dall'Oglio wrote an article pleading for a peaceful democratic transition in Syria, based on what he called "consensual democracy".
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Paolo Dall'Oglio met with opposition activists and participated in the funeral service for the 28-year-old Christian filmmaker Bassel Shehadeh, who had been murdered in Homs.
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Paolo Dall'Oglio ignored the order for a couple of months and continued living in Syria.
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Paolo Dall'Oglio left Syria on 12 June 2012 and joined in exile the newly established Deir Maryam al-Adhra of his community in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.
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In December 2012, Paolo Dall'Oglio was awarded the Peace Prize of the Italian region of Lombardy that is dedicated to persons having done extraordinary work in the field of peacebuilding.
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In late July 2013 Paolo Dall'Oglio entered rebel held territory in eastern Syria but was kidnapped by the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, while walking in Raqqa on 29 July.