Syrian Christians Fear Violent Backlash From Uprising

Dominic Evans 12/102/2012 Sept 12 (Reuters) – In a walled churchyard in the old city of Damascus, a small group of Syrians debate whether the time has come to flee one of Christianity’s ancient heartlands. Members of a Christian community which stretches back 2,000 years, they worry that Syria’s civil war can have no happy outcome and they face an upheaval that fellow believers have already suffered elsewhere in the Middle East. “The future is full of fear,” said one man who gave only his first name, Rami.