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Contact lost with abducted #Maaloula #nuns: negotiator
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Negotiators have lost contact with a group of nuns kidnapped from a Syrian town last year after their captors moved them, a source told AFP on Thursday. The 13 nuns and three maids were kidnapped from the famed Christian hamlet of Maaloula last year and transported to the nearby town of #Yabroud, a rebel stronghold the army is fighting to recapture. “I was in regular contact with them, but since yesterday we’ve lost contact,” a source involved in negotiations said. read more

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Islamist rebels abduct 12 #nuns from Syrian town
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A picture taken on June 29, 2009 shows a nun watching on as visitors pray in the Christian Orthodox monastery of Saint Takla in the Syrian village of #Maaloula. (Photo: AFP - Louai Beshara)

Islamist fighters who captured a Christian village north of Damascus have moved 12 nuns to a nearby town in what may have been a kidnapping, the Vatican’s ambassador to #syria said on Tuesday. The militants took the ancient quarter of Maaloula on Monday after heavy fighting with government forces. Syrian state media said they were holding the nuns captive in the Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Thecla. read (...)

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