Reports are coming in from various sources of what is possibly become the latest ethnic cleansing of Syrian Christians. Previously released videos show ISIS is involved in many areas. You won’t see Kiwi media Byron Clark or Patrick Gower posting about this, dispute their claimed concern for victims of global terrorists. Not many Christians realise that 2000 years ago Syria was at the heart of Christian pilgrimage and liturgy.
Even the Quran is in many places a poor Arabic translation of Syriac Christian liturgical materials. Perhaps if Sirah 97 was sung to the tune of “Oh Holy Night” it may make more sense, when Christ (the Word) was born (came down) of the Spirit. St Ephraim’s Syriac version contained a bit more Trinitarian theology, like removed purposely by the translators.
This from Greek City Times:
SYRIA: Greek Orthodox Christians beheaded, shot in the Valley of the Christians
Two Greek Orthodox Christians in Wadi al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians) were murdered in their home during a reported “burglary.”
Samaan Satme and Helena Khashouf from the village al-Jamasliyye in Syria’s Homs province were brutally murdered in their home.
Although the murder was initially reported as a burglary gone wrong, it later emerged that Samaan was beheaded and Helena shot, indicating that there were other motives.
Murdered on December 13, their funeral procession began the next day in the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, Haba.
Funeral procession today, village of Haba https://t.co/Z25LrMwsFN pic.twitter.com/5k2cdcPqRv
— OstensibleOyster (@Ostensiblay) December 14, 2024
According to local reports, “random murders” in Homs and the coast continue, often fitting the pattern of assailants entering a house to murder the victims.
At the same time, a video is circulating on social media of a Lebanese Christian woman in Syria saying her brother living in Latakia with her mother was attacked by neighbours upon rebels’ arrival, telling him: “You’re Christians, leave the house, we don’t want you here!”
Video on social media of Lebanese Christian woman in Syria saying her brother living in Latakia with mother was attacked by neighbors upon rebels’ arrival, telling him: “You’re Christians, leave the house, we don’t want you here!”
SYRIA: POSSIBLE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF CHRISTIANS
– Video on social media of Lebanese Christian woman in Syria saying her brother living in Latakia with mother was attacked by neighbors upon rebels’ arrival, telling him: “You’re Christians, leave the house, we don’t want you here!” pic.twitter.com/IBIv1M7YBE
— OstensibleOyster (@Ostensiblay) December 11, 2024
Turkish-backed jihadist forces launched an offensive in northern Syria on November 27, and by the end of the month had captured Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and commercial capital. As the rebels moved south, capturing Hama and Homs, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was in Moscow and not Damascus, which was ultimately captured on December 8.
Source: greekcitytimes
Is this the beginnings of an ethnic cleansing of Syrian Christians?
