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Suicide Bombing at Damascus Church Kills at Least 20
DN YUZ ^ | June 22, 2025 | no author listed

Posted on 06/22/2025 2:07:19 PM PDT by rod5591

A suicide bomber attacked a Greek Orthodox Church service in Syria’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and underscoring the new government’s challenge to maintain stability after more than a decade of civil war.

The Syrian authorities said the assailant had opened fire on congregants at the Mar Elias Church in Dweila, a neighborhood of Damascus, before detonating an explosive vest. More than 50 people were wounded.

The attacker appeared to have ties to the Islamic State, the extremist group that once controlled large areas of Syria, the authorities said. It was the first known suicide bombing in the capital since December, when a rebel coalition ousted Syria’s iron-fisted president, Bashar al-Assad, and took power.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: waronchristians
Horrible event. More Islamic murders of Christian believers.
1 posted on 06/22/2025 2:07:19 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: rod5591

If this doesn’t case you to hate ISlime and mudslimes, nothing will.


2 posted on 06/22/2025 2:10:07 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rod5591

Sounds like a song lyric

“”the things they do to get to heaven, I just don’t understand””


3 posted on 06/22/2025 2:18:11 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

As my mom always said, “They’re going to hell for that”.


4 posted on 06/22/2025 2:39:02 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: rod5591

Probably just the start of Muzzie retaliation against Christians and Jews for Trump’s raid on Iran, and Israel’s attacks.


5 posted on 06/22/2025 3:14:02 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: rod5591

“The attacker appeared to have ties to the Islamic State, the extremist group that once controlled large areas of Syria”

What? Don’t the know the current president of Syria is an ISIS and Al Qaeda kinda guy?


6 posted on 06/22/2025 3:30:11 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd

Canadian liberals reading this news be like: “Did Catholics in Syria have mass graves of First Nation kids?”


7 posted on 06/22/2025 3:50:00 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks; Ad Orientam; alex; antonius; aposiopetic; arielguard; bad company; ...
Orthodox Ping!

Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!

8 posted on 06/22/2025 4:23:55 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: rod5591

https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/world-news/suicide-bomber-strikes-syrian-church-near-damascus-during-mass/

WARNING: Can’t “unsee”.


9 posted on 06/22/2025 4:36:01 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: lightman

Lord have mercy!


10 posted on 06/22/2025 7:48:40 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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