ISIS SEIZES ARMENIAN CHURCH IN RAQQA
The Daily Star, Lebanon
Dec 5 2013
BEIRUT: An Armenian church in the city of Raqqa has been taken over by
militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, according
to activists.
The Al-Qaeda affiliate has turned Martyrs’ Church into a proselytizing
center, according to opposition sources, and replaced a cross above
the church with an ISIS banner.
Members of the group had earlier vandalized two churches in the city,
provoking demonstrations against the move by local residents.
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