Prayers and concern, we are not far from Damascus, in a church where the faithful pray for fellow Christians kidnapped by Islamic state there is a week.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the jihadists have yet freed 19 people on the 200 removed in Hasaka. There would be 16 men and three women, all aged over 50 years, released against a ransom.
After the Yazidis, it was the turn of Christians being targeted by jihadists. Thousands have fled their homes in Syria and Iraq. In this country, we find in Kirkuk Manhal forced to leave Mosul:
"No one wants to leave the country, but the situation requires it, he said. There is no stability. Our children are afraid we. We stop no change locations. If it continues like this, no one will stay. We want peace and that Iraq is as before. When the situation returns to normal, everyone will return
home. "
Through the world as Beirut there are some days Christians call to stop the persecution.
The Syrian Church, one of the oldest in the world, could disappear.
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