Testimony before the US House: "While many people are facing hardship and dying in the Arab Spring, no group is suffering more than Christians....They are indeed stranded in the middle of a brutal war, where each side--regime and rebel--fires rockets into civilian areas and carry out indiscriminate bloody attacks daily... They are also the targets of a more focused shadow war, one that is taking place alongside the larger conflict between the Shiite-backed Baathist Assad regime and the largely Sunni rebel militias. Christians are the targets of an ethno-religious cleansing by Islamist militants and courts. In addition, they have lost the protection of the Assad government, making them easy prey for criminals and fighters whose affiliations are not always clear.... This 2,000-year-old community--some members of which still pray in Jesus’ Aramaic tongue and trace their churches to St. Paul, who had experienced his conversion to the faith on the road to Damascus--is now facing extinction.... For many heart-rending examples, read the rest of this important document by Nina Shea: docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20130625/101036/HHRG-113-FA16-Wstate-SheaN-20130625.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:10:16 +0000
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