A Petition 

In Support Of The 7th NAKA Meeting 

Of March 23rd 2013

Date: Wednesday, March 20th 2013

To

His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East

Supreme Head of the Syrian Orthodox Church

May it Please Your Holiness:

After Kissing Your Holiness’ right hand and beseeching Your Holiness’ blessings, we, the undersigned members of the North American Knanaya Community (‘NAKC’) and who all are administered under the ecclesiastical leadership of His Eminence Mor Silvanos Ayub, the Metropolitan and Archbishop of North America, Canada and Europe Region, is submitting this petition for favorable consideration and appropriate relief or intervention from our Holy Father.

Factual Background

The official three year term (2010 thru 2012) for the office of the previously elected 6th Knanaya Association and it’s Knanaya Committee (Board of Directors) have now already expired.

Your Holiness’s Bull No E07/13, overruling H.E Mor Severios Metropolitan’s Bull and favoring H.E. Mor Silvanos Metropolitan’s position, with respect to the alleged issues brought to the attention of Your Holiness regarding the 7^th North American Knanaya Association election of parish delegates should have paved the way, most certainly, for a smooth Election of the 7^th Knanaya Association.

Instead of obeying Your Holiness’ Apostolic Bull as such, couple of irreligious members and disgusting elements in our community and their innocent cronies, after falling into the traps of the devilish satan, very unfortunately, by filing a frivolous lawsuit, challenged the democratically and constitutionally implemented election process. The said  lawsuit was only filed on February 15th 2013 afternoon, one-day just prior to the noticed and scheduled first meeting of the 7th North American Knanaya Association ( The subject meeting was originally scheduled for February 16th 2013 and it was noticed by Bull # SA 01/13 dated January 4th 2013)

Furthermore, such lawsuit was filed against the North American Knanaya Community and also, jointly and severally, against His Eminence Mor Silvanos Ayub, the Metropolitan and Archbishop of North American Knanaya Community.

They thereby thus, simply by misleading and eliciting the sympathy of the Honorable Court,  were initially successful in obtaining a temporary restraining order staying the previously scheduled first national meeting of the 7th North American Knanaya Association which was originally scheduled for February 16th 2013. Doing so, in misleading and eliciting the sympathy of the Honorable Court, those satanic perpetrators, have even committed the evil and devilish act of (mis)-interpreting Your Holiness’ Holy Words embedded in the Apostolic Bull No: E07/133 ( “...to continue the election process maintaining the status quo).

However, by the abundant grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the everlasting Blessings of Your Holiness, the temporary restraining order against our Beloved Metropolitan as well as our community itself was lifted by the same Honorable Judge.

In his verdict, the Honorable Judge ruled in relevant part::

“Based on the...court findings and analysis as well as a full and thorough review of the memoranda provided by the litigants, the affidavits submitted and the excellent argument from counsel.....

Accordingly, the court herewith DISSOLVES its prior restraining order issued on February 15, 2013 and REMOVES any and all restraints imposed by this court as concerns the elections that are the subject of the present litigation.”

In giving this order timely and promptly, even the Honorable Court speed-ed up and prioritized it’s decision making and verdict granting process.

It is respectfully again brought to the kind attention of Your Holiness that, the Honorable Court did indeed prioritized in rendering it’s decision, that too a well studied, thorough and a detailed “iron-clad’ verdict of 3-pages, a copy of which is attached herewith as “Exhibit - A”, only after and when the legal counsels representing our community brought to the attention of the Honorable Court about the constitutional mandate that the first meeting of this newly elected association must and should occur on or before March 31st 2013

But the restless simply continues to be restless !

The satanic forces behind all troubles, the devilish forces behind all turbulence-s and turmoil in North America, now have re-designed their agendas with a more aggressive tool. Knowing very well by now that, they have no room to get an appeal from higher court on the “iron-clad” court verdict permitting the 7th North American Knanaya Association in convening it’s first meeting on March 23rd 2013, these devilish elements have now re-designed their tool in the form of a petition, the so called or titled one, “PETITION AGAINST CONDUCTING THE 7th NAKA”, which contains nothing but blatant lies and manipulative techniques and vocabularies. The petition itself is addressed to “Your Holiness” and the contents of the petition are nothing but outright lies. The ridiculous petition lacks absolutely any real basis at all.

The fabulous lies contained in their baseless and crooked petition is clearly evident from the contents of their new petition itself. As a glaring example; their latest and new speculative and untruthful position, their self-asserted version, with regard to Your Holiness Apostolic Bull E07/13  is that;  “Election of the representatives to the 7th NAKC, conducted by our Regional Metropolitan Mor Silvanos Ayub, was against Your Holiness’ directive to maintain “status quo” …”.  

Your Holiness is well aware of the fact that, when Your Holiness did declared and directed “...to continue the election process maintaining the status quo”, Your Holiness did indeed and in fact only meant to continue with the election process “as-it-is” established through three different election bulletins instituted by the Bulls from H.E. Mor Silvanose Ayub Metropolitan which were also in full compliance with the NAKC constitution.

In fact, these crooks even attempted the same tactic even at least once before, at the Honorable Court, during the prior stages of the litigation at the Honorable Worcester Superior Court. During the pend-ency of the subject matter. They then, misrepresented about the Apostolic Bull to the Court by alleging

  A part from their  pleadings at the Honorable Court

“....the Knanaya Diocese...., under the Chief Metropolitan follows the Patriarch in matters of religious faith and practices only.... Clearly, the Patriarch’s role with respect to the NAKC is limited to “spiritual leadership”

All these frivolous and maneuvering positions, their new afterthoughts and after-minds, simply call for their un-loyalty and disobedience to the Holy Throne. 

These devils will say anything to fit their needs and meet their needs. 

Otherwise, how would they and how could they, after misrepresenting to the Court that, Your Holiness’ authority over NAKC is only “Spiritual leadership” and that Your Holiness “has no administrative power under the NAKC constitution”, now come before your Holiness, without no shame at all and without any true repentance, and come before Your Holiness and request to “...to intervene and order …. to cancel the meeting of the 7th NAKA scheduled for this coming Saturday, March 23, 2013”.

Without having no real basis or need, it only truly saddens us to see the crooked and devilish action of our own brothers and sisters who have now clearly become the puppets of the restless satan in establishing his devilish kingdom in this God loving small community. 

NAKC Constitution Mandates that the first meeting 

of any newly elected association must occur 

on or before March 31st of the election year

The prevailing constitution of our community mandates a deadline, March 31st, a date prior to which the first meeting of the newly elected association must and should occur. Furthermore, constitutionally it is mandatory that, then at such meeting, the Board of Directors (NAKA Committee) must be elected for the next term (2013-15).

The devilish perpetrators who are opposing the 7th North American Knanaya Association from assuming it’s constitutionally authorized office, comprise only of a handful number of crooked people and their cronies who really and clearly only hold less than very minimal percentage (%) of the total number of bona-fide votes in the newly elected 7th NAK association.

Though, they are nothing more than very minimal, their arrogance and aggressiveness in designing devilish tools simply give rise to the fact about their satanic act and his influence on these sick and ill-wedded minds. In fact and indeed, that is the only real problem and root-cause of all these artificially created turbulence-s today we have in our small loving community!

When the parishioners of North American Knanaya Community, simply rejected them from  holding any part in the administration of North American Knanaya Association, any God fearing people would have and should have respected the democratically elected delegates and should have given them the opportunity to serve the community. Instead, these crooks simply decided to abuse the system through the Court of Law, an issue which have huge amount of money for the community members and which, still remains to be taken back upon the Court for proper redressal.  

Now when their frivolous lawsuit was literally thrown out and tossed out by the Court, they have re-designed their fabricated and fictitious story, in the mere hope that, they can simply misrepresent facts and elicit sympathy from Your Holiness.

In this year of 2013, last week of March is the Passion Week. At the same time, constitutionally it is mandated and required that the first meeting of the 7th NAKA must be held on or before March 31st 2013. In these circumstances only, our Metropolitan H.E Mor Silvanos Metropolitan has sent out notices to convene the first association meeting on March 23^rd, 2013. A copy of H.E’s notice for the meeting is attached herewith as “Exhibit - B”.

Since our Constitution requires that the first association should meet on or before March 31^st,  H.E. Mor Silvanos has a constitutional obligation to meet the deadline, otherwise H.E. will be then naturally be blamed and made responsible for violating the constitution.

Without having the association and Knanaya committee assume their office, our community organization cannot function and survive. It is very important to elect a new Board of Directors to meet the community’s needs, avoid constitutional stalemate and to protect the corporation laws of Massachusetts where the corporation is registered.

Now, these religious perverts who have failed in the Civil Court, are trying to misuse Your Holiness’ Apostolic Powers against our Metropolitan Mor Silvanos Ayub and our North American Knanaya Community.

Therefore, our Holy Father, we pray and beseech you to somehow intervene in this matter for us to convene the 7^Th association on time on the 23^rd March 2013 itself or as an alternative, it is respectfully prayed that,  their Petition (PETITION AGAINST CONDUCTING THE 7th NAKA), may please be ignored, thrown-out  and/or declined.

Respectfully and humbly submitted by kissing your Holy Hands again,

Your Holiness’ Spiritual Children,

who all are born and brought up,

learning a very precious slogan of our life 

“even ‘if’ we forget our mother who gave us birth

...we will not forget Antioch”