The refugees with nowhere to turn: Syrian Christians share their stories
Written by Najib

 

George is wounded but he has no scars. It’s pain of an emotional kind that ails him. He feels scorned and humiliated, like a man who ended up on the bad side of a deal through no fault of his own. A Christian from Homs, Syria, George, who won’t give his last name out of fear, has seen his life’s work uprooted and tossed aside by a bitter 17-month conflict he has little attachment to. George fled Syria about a year ago when fighting between regime forces and an armed opposition near his home seemed too close for comfort. He left with hundreds of Christians from Homs and sought refuge in Zahle, a quaint city perched on the edge of the Bekaa Valley and the heartland of Catholic Christendom in Lebanon. [Link]