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| Orthodox faithful pray during a mass held at the Syrian Orthodox Church on Sunday in Damascus, Syria to celebrate Easter according to the Orthodox calendar. Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter several weeks after observances by other Christian denominations. Christians pose around 12 percent of Syria's 20 million Sunni-majority inhabitants. |
The uprising in Syria began as a peaceful protest for diversity and
democracy during the Arab Spring of 2011. But it has turned into a holy
war between Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam — with Christians and other
minorities caught in the middle.
The highest profile Christian victims of the civil
war are two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in late April, and there is still
no official word as to the whereabouts or fate of the two clerics, who
were abducted as they returned from a humanitarian mission in Turkey.
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