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  • Christianity grows in Syrian town once besieged by Islamic State

    04/16/2019 10:25:40 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 7 replies
    reuters ^ | April 16, 2019 / 7:41 AM / Updated 5 hours ago | John Davison
    KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago. The converts say the experience of war and the onslaught of a group claiming to fight for Islam pushed them towards their new faith. After a number of families converted, the Syrian-Turkish border town’s first evangelical church opened last year. Islamic State militants were beaten back by U.S. air strikes and Kurdish fighters at Kobani in early 2015, in a reversal of fortune...