Abducted Syrian bishops in good health, held by rebels

Former President Amin Gemayel, center, meets Bishop George Saliba with a Delegation in Beirut, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9/5/13 BEIRUT: Acting President of the Syrian National Council George Sabra   said Wednesday that  the two Greek Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria   are being held in a small village north  west of Aleppo   by a rebel group. In a telephone conversation with Kataeb Party   leader Amin Gemayel, Sabra said that  Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop Boulos Yazigi   and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim   were both in good health and  still in the custody of a small group of rebels in the Syrian town of  Bshaqtin. “The bishops are in good health and are being held by a small group in a town  called Bshaqtin, 20 kilometers north west of Aleppo,” Sabra told Gemayel who was  in a meeting with Syriac Orthodox bishops at the Kataeb Party’s headquarters in  Saifi, according to Gemayel’s office