Posted on 02/26/2015 8:16:41 PM PST by marshmallow
Rome, Italy, Feb 26, 2015 / 07:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The number of ISIS hostages in Syria has increased to at least 250 after continued attacks on Christian villages, and civilians fleeing to the Turkish border have been stranded when not allowed to cross.
“There are 200 families who were running away and trying to escape to Turkey, but the border is closed for Syrians. No Syrian can cross into Turkey,” Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo told CNA Feb. 26.
Archbishop Hindo oversees the Syrian archdiocese of Hassake, which is located in the Al-Hasakah region of Syria. The region sits between the country’s borders with both Turkey and Iraq.
He spoke to CNA in French over the phone with a patchy connection from his diocese in Syria, where internet is currently down, saying that ISIS has continued its assault in the area, raising the number of hostages to more than 250 after an estimated 90 were kidnapped during attacks earlier this week.
British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday that at least 90 Assyrian Christians were kidnapped by ISIS after militants seized two villages near Al-Hasakah’s city of Tal-Tamr.
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Michelle Obama ain’t hashtagged it yet?
More random, non targeted acts.
“....civilians fleeing to the Turkish border have been stranded when not allowed to cross.”
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Turkey still anti-Christian like they were in WWI when they slaughtered more than a million.
Hey you congress critters — any comments?
This is a religious war. They now have well over 1000 little Christian Children and women and elderly that they will burn. And what are you going to do?
Has Pope Francis or the Vatican hashtagged this yet?
Come on Frank...........let er’ rip......
Stand up & be counted all the way from Rome!
Oh , sorry, I forgot you can’t be counted on.
Was wondering when our fearless leader is going to express his outrage over the ROP attacking Christians.
Remember back a few weeks ago when we were told how unislamic the burning of that Jordanian pilot was? That next Sunday after the Liturgy the Greeks and the Armenians all got together to remember when those howling Mohammedan hordes in Turkey rounded us up, herded us into our churches and burned us to death, how they sought out our hierarchs, gouge out their eyes, set their beards on fire and chopped them up into pieces. There’s no surprise that the demon Erdogan and his Mohammedan devil worshipping compatriots have made common cause with Daesh!
That’s strange - ISIS doesn’t seem to have any problem crossing back and forth over the Turkish border.
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