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Chechyn Rebels In Syria Release Christian Bishops
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 22:52
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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.
The rebel Free Syrian Army condemned the kidnapping and launched a search while the government, which is not in control of the area where they were abducted, said the Chechens were attached to Jabhat al-Nusra, a group affiliated to al-Qaeda.
