Bishops Paul Yazigi and John Ibrahim were martyred for Christ and killed by the militants of Nour Al-Din Al-Zenki (a Free Syrian Army unit), an opposition group sponsored and supported by the Western countries during the Syrian crisis, journalists have found out. Orthotimes.news publishes an English translation of the investigation.On April 22, 2013, Paul Yazigi, a Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo (who is the younger brother of Patriarch of Antioch John X Yazigi) and John Ibrahim, Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo, went to Turkey allegedly in order to collect humanitarian aid for the Christians of Aleppo.
The team of investigative journalists concluded that the true mission of Paul Yazigi and John Ibrahim was to release from captivity the Greek Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz and the Armenian Catholic priest Michel Kayal, who had been kidnapped on their way to the monastery of the Sacred Heart Sisters in the town of Al-Kafrun about 30 km from Aleppo and detained in the town of Kafr Dael.