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KAREKIN II CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN SYRIA
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians
YEREVAN-His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of
All Armenians, has severely criticized the recent terrorist attack
near the Holy Translators Armenian National School in Damascus, which
claimed the lives of several children. His Holiness described this
vicious crime against an educational establishment "unacceptable"
and emphasized that Christian communities are often targeted during
the Syria conflict.
The Catholicos offered condolences to the families and friends of
the victims, underlining that the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin will
maintain its support to the Syrian Armenians.
On November 17 a requiem service will be offered at the Mother
Cathedral for the peace of the souls of the victims and for the
establishment of peace in Syria.
Nine children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit
a school and a school bus in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday,
AFP reports.
"The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus
school with mortar rounds has risen to five dead, all of them children,
and 27 injured," a news alert on Syrian state television said.
Another four students were killed when a mortar hit the vehicle they
were in, in the central Christian neighborhood of Bab Sharqi district
of the capital, state news agency SANA said, adding that the driver
was also killed.
One of the young victims was identified as 6-year-old Hovhannes
Atokamian, a first-grader in the school.
http://asbarez.com/116101/karekin-ii-condemns-attacks-on-christian-communities-in-syria/
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians
YEREVAN-His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of
All Armenians, has severely criticized the recent terrorist attack
near the Holy Translators Armenian National School in Damascus, which
claimed the lives of several children. His Holiness described this
vicious crime against an educational establishment "unacceptable"
and emphasized that Christian communities are often targeted during
the Syria conflict.
The Catholicos offered condolences to the families and friends of
the victims, underlining that the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin will
maintain its support to the Syrian Armenians.
On November 17 a requiem service will be offered at the Mother
Cathedral for the peace of the souls of the victims and for the
establishment of peace in Syria.
Nine children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit
a school and a school bus in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday,
AFP reports.
"The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus
school with mortar rounds has risen to five dead, all of them children,
and 27 injured," a news alert on Syrian state television said.
Another four students were killed when a mortar hit the vehicle they
were in, in the central Christian neighborhood of Bab Sharqi district
of the capital, state news agency SANA said, adding that the driver
was also killed.
One of the young victims was identified as 6-year-old Hovhannes
Atokamian, a first-grader in the school.