Residents walk near a damaged church June 8 in Qusair, Syria, on their way to inspect their houses and collect their belongings. (CNS/Reuters/Rami Bleibel)
Syrian Christian Towns Emptied By Sectarian Violence -- The Telegraph
Towns and villages in Syria that have been home to Christians for hundreds of years are being steadily emptied by sectarian violence and targeted kidnappings.
Tens of thousands Syriac Christians – members of the oldest Christian community in the world – have fled their ancestral provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasakah in northeastern Syria, residents have said.
"It breaks my heart to think how our long history is being uprooted," said Ishow Goriye, the head of a Syriac Christian political Hasakah.
Mr Goriye, told The Daily Telegraph how, over the past two years he has watched as Christian families from Hasakah pack their possessions on the rooftops of their vehicles and flee their homes "with little plan to come back".
Conflict in the area, desperate economic conditions, lawlessness, and persecution by rebel groups born from the perception that Christians support the regime, remain the main reasons for why Christian families are fleeing the area.
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Update #1: Christians are in the crosshairs of bloody Muslim wars in Mideast -- Washington Times
Update #2: Syrian Christians starving as Obama and western nations support rebels -- Examiner
My Comment: Zero commentary and condemnation from the White House and State Department on this persecution .... a position that is .... sadly .... completely opposite from what other countries are saying.
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