Assyrian tombs over a thousand years old destroyed and desecrated, bones of the dead and other sacred objects thrown outside. This latest, worrying episode of intolerance against a Christian place in Turkey took place on June 29 on the feast of Saint Peter and Paul, but the news has only emerged in recent days.
The discovery of the desecrated tombs aroused sorrow and despair within the Christian community, which received the support and solidarity of the Yazidis living in the area, where the seat of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, which later moved to Syria, once stood. In the past decade, during the first phase of the Syrian conflict, the area saw the arrival of a substantial flow of Christian refugees, in some cases opposed by the Muslim majority.
In fact, all he did was to give a piece of bread and some water to people who had knocked at the doors of his convent. According to Turkish authorities, those people were members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party .
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