He can now return to Deir Ezzor and help rebuild his church

[TestifyToTruth]

Watch this very brief and moving interview (less than 2 minutes) with a Syriac Orthodox priest by Dutch TV journalist.

The initial prayer chant is: "Peace, peace, peace to your bones, and from your bones we regain strength. O prophets, saints and martyrs, may your prayers be a bulwark for us." The following interview has English subtitles

He can return to Deir Ezzor - as the over 3-year-long siege by ISIS (and accidentally by US-NATO coalition warplanes at times) of the Syrian army garrison defending 150,000 people (with large % Christians who had fled ISIS) has now been lifted by the Syrian Army with Russian and Iranian help.

 

[football5680]

Good to see. I pray that the Syrian Army and the SDF continue to steadily purge ISIS and the other terrorists from the land.

 

[ArmenianJohn]

Deir ez-Zor has many Christians including Armenians since the Genocide. God Bless the Syrian Government and President Assad as they continue to destroy ISIS and the other terrorists and liberate these places.

Deir ez-Zor Camps - Wikipedia

Those Armenians who survived during the genocide in 1915-1916 were driven onward in two directions – either toward Damascus, or along the Euphrates to Deir ez-Zor. During the early period of massacres, 30,000 Armenians were encamped in various camps outside the town of Deir ez-Zor. They were under the protection of the Arab governor Ali Suad Bey until the Ottoman authorities decided to replace him with Zeki Bey, who was known for his cruelty and barbarity.[3] When the refugees, including women and children, reached Deir ez-Zor, they cooked grass, ate dead birds,[4]and although there was a cave near the Deir ez-Zor for prisoners to store until they starved, no "camp" seems ever to have been planned for the Armenians.[5]

According to Minority Rights Group,

"Those who survived the long journey south were herded into huge open-air concentration camps, the grimmest of which was Deir-ez-Zor... where they were starved and killed by sadistic guards. A small number escaped through the secret protection of friendly Arabs from villages in Northern Syria".[6]

According to Christopher J. Walker, "'Deportation' was just a euphemism for mass murder. No provision was made for their journey or exile, and unless they could bribe their guards, they were forbidden in almost all cases food and water." Those who survived landed up between Jerablus and Deir ez-Zor, "a vast and horrific open-air concentration camp".[7]

 

[FreeinChrist]

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