By Open Doors Hanna (not her real name) is a Christian woman living in Damascus, Syria, with her husband. She and her husband have two young daughters. Hanna works in a school. Hanna has been writing what life is like in war-torn Syria for over a year. I’m in church while I’m telling you this….
By Dustin Stojanovic DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sami Amir is used to the deep echoing rumble of the Syrian army artillery pounding rebel positions on the outskirts of Damascus. It’s the thump of mortars launched from an Islamist-controlled neighborhood that scares him to death. The mortars have repeatedly hit in his mainly Christian district of…
Open Doors USA Editor’s note: Hanna is a Christian woman living in Damascus, Syria, with her husband. She and her husband have two young daughters. Hanna, who works in a school, tells us what daily life is like in Damascus. The schools have started again, so we get back to the uncertainty. We are getting…
By Melanie Korb Pastor Edward from Damascus paints a sad picture of the situation in the Syrian capital. “The situation is very grim,” he says. “There is deep sadness and much stress and anxiety.” According to the pastor, approximately 40 percent of the members of his church have left the country since the civil war…
By Karin Laub and Zeina Karam BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked rebels have launched an assault on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus — part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of…
By Christian Newswire More than 1.3 million Syrians have fled the war-torn country, according to the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Syria is over two million. People that are staying in their embattled cities are in need of assistance. Open Doors is…