Christian bishops released by Chechen rebels in Syria

Two Christian bishops kidnapped near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo were freed yesterday and arrived safely at St Elias church in the city.

Sources in the Aleppo dioceses said the city’s Greek Orthodox bishop Boulos al-Yazigi and Syrian-Orthodox Metropolitan Yuhanna Ibrahim had been held by Chechen fundamentalists.

The clerics had been on a mission to negotiate the release of two priests taken two months ago when their car was stopped and the driver killed. Read more

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