"No, no. That is the urgent message from an archbishop who has said that security problems, job instability and poor living conditions have left people “feeling like strangers in their own country.”Speaking with us during Holy Week, Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Selwanos Petros Al-Nemeh of Homs and Hama said that about 50% of Christians had left Syria since the outbreak of the conflict in 2011. An estimated 33,500 buildings were either damaged or destroyed and the Syrian Observatory says more than 20,000 civilians were killed. Hundreds of bullet casings were mixed around Marwa's past life. Feda's customers mainly include the Syrian-allied Russian and Iranian forces still stationed here, and on this day, me.As I walked through the city that afternoon, I looked through the blown out doors and shattered windows of businesses and homes that I imagined used to looked like New York City's Lower East Side, where I once lived. Marwa's husband was drafting at his desk with a clear view of the city of Homs when a bullet pierced through the wall, just missing him.
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Date of the next clock change and exact time to spring forward or fall back. The craters in the road jolted me back to reality. We pray our God to give peace to the whole world, that we can live peacefully and happily together.” "Occasionally I feel lonely. "We have four more floors to go," said architect Marwa al-Sabouni as we scaled up a blackened stairwell to the twelfth floor of the burnt out office building where her and her husband used to work. It's this kind of tit-for-tat that the U.N. worries could spark an all out battle, with the rebels and their civilian captives no match for the Syrian army and their Russian supported airstrikes.And as government hold the front line, President Assad faces another battle: rebuilding. "The Syrian army is committed to the ceasefire but the rebels are not," Regional Commander Simón al-Wakeel told me from his headquarters in the city of Hama. An estimated 70,000 rebels are hiding among three million civilians. When does time change? Tags Iran Syria homs airstrikes The Battle of Saadad was fought during the Syrian Civil War, in October 2013, when rebel forces attacked the town of Sadad, a Christian town with a population that speaks Western Neo-Aramaic. Sign up for The Jerusalem Post Premium Plus for just $5Upgrade your reading experience with an ad-free environment and exclusive contentDavidic dynasty symbol found in Jerusalem: Once in a lifetime discoveryDrone drops hundreds of bags of cannabis in Tel AvivMedical cannabis initiative to try a new growing methodSermon suggests Saudi Arabia near normalizing ties with IsraelDonald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize following Israel-UAE deal
In my research over the last two years, I wanted to understand the local and international responses to displacement and destruction in Syria. “We need a lot of support to rebuild and allow people to return. I mean you must get used to it after eight years," she said without skipping a beat. Speaking with us during Holy Week, Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Selwanos Petros Al-Nemeh of Homs and Hama said that about 50% of Christians had left Syria … As the sun set I could make out the silhouette of one soldier resting inside. Daylight Savings Time 2019 in Syria – Homs.
"Personally I have taken not to blame anyone because the scale of loss and the scale of atrocity makes it very possible to blame everyone." Any post-war world is corrupt, she said.
He said: “Christians would love to stay and be bound to their country because this is their land … What is preventing them from staying is the instability in their work, the insecurity and vulnerability that they are facing, economic difficulties and dreadful living conditions.”The archbishop stressed that people “were bewildered by the immensity of the damage in the city [of Homs]” and the struggle to get help. The agency has since stopped updating its count because new numbers were difficult to verify. Supermarkets had empty shelves and broken cash registers. And while a ceasefire negotiated by Russia and Turkey in September has minimized bloodshed, tensions are rising.
Travel agencies had dusty posters of paradise hanging from a single tack. "This is the price sometimes, but at the end, the people are liberated from the terrorists," he said.
Four civilians, including a toddler, were killed and 21 injured in …