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| Name | Inside Syria's 1,500-year-old Christian community |
| Video Uploader | Video From The Telegraph |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 22-11-2014 16:32:43 |
| Video Discription | The Telegraph's Ruth Sherlock visits the Syrian town of Izraa, home one of the world's oldest Christian communities, which is increasingly under threat by ongoing fighting in the region. Home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, the Syrian agricultural town of Izraa has stood the comings and goings of many empires over the centuries. But as the country's civil war creeps closer, it is threatening to force the town's Christians into permanent exile: never to return, they fear. Exactly how many Christians have left Syria is difficult to say, but according to the Christian charity Open Doors, some 700,000 have left the country, which equates to some 40 per cent of Syria's pre-war Christian population. Christian leaders in the country warn of an exodus on the scale of Iraq, where the 1.5 million-strong community that lived there prior to the first Gulf War is now down to as little as a tenth of its former size. The threat to towns like Izraa will be uppermost in the mind of the Pope during his visit to Turkey this week, amid warnings from Christian leaders worldwide that their religion might soon lose its foothold in the very region where it was born. Looking around Izraa's 1,500 year old church, Father Elias Hanout warned: "In this land the Word started. And if you delete the Word here, then Christianity across the world will have no future." Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture. rpx8UeNfX2A |
| Category | News & Politics |
| Tags | telegraph | Christianity (Religion) | Community (Website Category) | Middle East | syria rebels | rebels | Iraq | Syria (Country) |
