Historic Armenian Church in Deir el-Zour – Syria destroyed
Prakash Varghese (OCP Delegate of UAE, Gulf and Levant)
OCP News Service – 3/12/14
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The historic Armenian Church dedicated to the memory of genocide victims (dedicated to the Ottoman Genocide Victims in Turkey) located in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour in Syria has been destroyed by the Jabhat al-Nusra rebels reports The Independent.
The armed gadgets destroyed the church building. Apart from that bones of hundreds of genocide victims were removed from the crypt and scattered on the street.
ISIS and other terrorist organizations have killed large number of Christin in Syria and Iraq. Thousands of them have fled and are living in refugee camps and other countries. Large number of historical Christian churches and monuments has been destroyed as well.
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