‘Biggest Massacre’ of Christians in Syria Reported as Population Continues to be Targeted by Rebels!
- Before Christians get into paranoid Islamophobia, let me remind all of you that easily 10x more Muslims are being massacred by these western financed, armed, supported Jihadists! This is not a religious war although the MSM often portrays it as such.
– - ‘Biggest massacre’ of Christians in Syria reported as population continues to be targeted by rebels!
by Madison Ruppert, End the Lie
Two new mass graves containing over 30 bodies in the Christian city of Sadad were recently discovered, evidence of what one archbishop called “the most serious and biggest massacre” of Christians in Syria.
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The situation for Christians in Syria has been horrific and it seems to be only getting worse as time passes. Indeed, for many Christians around the world, their faith puts them in the line of fire.
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A report published by Fides on Thursday stated that some 45 Christian civilians, including women and children, were killed by Islamist rebels in Sadad, halfway between Homs and Damascus.
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The report, which cited the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate in Damascus, stated that the Christian settlement was invaded and occupied by Islamist militias on Oct. 21, though it was recently recaptured by the Syrian army.
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“45 innocent civilians were martyred for no reason, and among them several women and children, many thrown into mass graves,” said Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh, Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs and Hama. “Other civilians were threatened and terrorized. 30 were wounded and 10 are still missing.”
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Much of the city, which had a population of 15,000, was destroyed and looted, eyewitnesses said, according to the Christian Post.
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Sadad reportedly has roots dating back to 2,000 B.C. and boasts many churches, temples, historic landmarks and archaeological sites, the Christian Post reported.
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“For one week, 1,500 families were held as hostages and human shields,” Alnemeh said of the siege of Sadad to Fides. “Among them children, the elderly, the young, men and women. Some of them fled on foot travelling 8 km from Sadad to Al-Hafer to find refuge.”
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The church official said that some 2,500 families fled the city with only their clothes. Refugees remain scattered between Damascus, Homs, Fayrouza, Zaydal, Maskane and Al-Fhayle, according to Alnemeh.
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Alnemeh maintains that it is the largest massacre of Christians in Syria and the second in the Middle East after the 2010 attack on a church in Iraq that left at least 58 dead.
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In September, at least 78 were killed and over 120 wounded in a suicide bombing targeting a church in Pakistan. In October, it was reported that gunmen fired upon a Christian wedding in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt.
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