ISIS Kidnaps Scores of Assyrian Christians in Syria
Dozens of Syrian Christian families have been abducted by fighters from ISIS, according to a new report from Reuters.
About 230 people, “some of who were taken from a church,” were kidnapped or detained by ISIS when the terrorist group captured the Syrian town of Qaryatain on Friday. Prior to the start of the civil war, about 18,000 people lived in Qaryatain, about 2,000 of them Syriac Catholics and Orthodox Christians, reports The Telegraph.
