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Kanayé, (Qunaya) another Christian village invaded by jihadists that impose the Islamic law

Marian shrine in the grounds of the Monastery at Qunaya, from a past winter.

Dec 16, 2013, Agenzia Fides The Christian village of Kanayé, Orontes River, in the Governorate of Idlib, has been invaded by Islamist militants that terrorize the population, threaten a massacre and have imposed the Islamic law. This is what was reported to Fides Agency by Mgr. Giuseppe Nazzaro, vicar emeritus …

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Syrian Rebels Kidnap Nuns as They Invade Christian Town of Maaloula Again

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) The ancient Christian city of Maaloula has become the epicenter for fighting between an Al-Qaeda linked rebel group and the Syrian government.

Dec 2, 2013, Christian Post Syrian rebels have reportedly re-entered the historic Christian town of Maaloula, north of the country’s capital of Damascus, this week while battling forces loyal to the country’s President Bashar al-Assad. The rebel forces have been occupying the small, predominately Christian town intermittently for the past …

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Bodies of Christian Family Discovered in a Syrian Well

Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri (Metropolitan & Patriarchal Secretary)

Nov 6, 2013, AINA Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely Syrian Orthodox town when rebels attacked last month, are now returning home to discover the scale of atrocities in what is being seen as the worst act of anti-Christian persecution since the war in Syria began. The …

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Atrocities Committed by US-NATO Sponsored Rebels against Syria’s Christians: Christian Town of Sadad

Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri (Metropolitan & Patriarchal Secretary)

Nov 4, OCP News Special Report by Mor Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh (Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs and Hama) Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri (Metropolitan & Patriarchal Secretary) My brothers and sisters The peace of the Lord be with you: I present to you a glimpse of the events which have …

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