Damascus: two churches hit by mortar fire

August 26, 2015

Two Catholic churches in Damascus were damaged in an August 23 mortar bombardment that killed nine people and wounded fifty, the Fides news service reports.

Maronite Catholic Archbishop Samir Nassar remarked to Fides that living in Damascus today is living “under indiscriminate bombing, a kind of Russian roulette.”

 

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Further information:

• Mortar attacks on two churches in Damascus (Fides)