A young girl with an unlit candle during Palm Sunday mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition in Damascus. (Credit: AFP)
It is a tense Holy Week for Syria's Christians. On Friday night in Suqaylabiya, a predominantly Orthodox city in western Hama, dozens of armed men from the nearby village of Qala'at al-Madiq arrived on motorcycles, opened fire on houses, and ransacked several businesses. The attack reportedly broke out after a fight between residents of the two localities, with the former accusing the latter of harassing women in their streets. It was the last straw for Syrian Churches, which have adopted unprecedented precautionary measures ahead of Easter. More from Syria 'We have mosques, churches and nightclubs': In Damascus, resistance to alcohol ban On Saturday, March 28, several church authorities — including the Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East in Damascus, the Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of the capital, and...
It is a tense Holy Week for Syria's Christians. On Friday night in Suqaylabiya, a predominantly Orthodox city in western Hama, dozens of armed men from the nearby village of Qala'at al-Madiq arrived on motorcycles, opened fire on houses, and ransacked several businesses. The attack reportedly broke out after a fight between residents of the two localities, with the former accusing the latter of harassing women in their streets. It was the last straw for Syrian Churches, which have adopted unprecedented precautionary measures ahead of Easter. More from Syria 'We have mosques, churches and nightclubs': In Damascus, resistance to alcohol ban On Saturday, March 28, several church authorities — including the Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East in Damascus, the Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of the capital,...
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