CWN - Members of a Syrian rebel faction entered two Eastern Catholic parishes on September 26 and burned crosses, statues, and other religious objects, Agence France-Presse reported.
The news agency attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a jihadist organization founded in 2003 to oppose the US invasion of Iraq. The incidents took place in Ar-Raqqah (Raqa), a city of 220,000 in north-central Syria that was taken over by allied Syrian rebel forces in March.
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