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A Kurdish Pastor’s Arrest Stirs Fears in Post-Assad Syria

· Byline on the source page: Angela Fulton, as published by Christianity Today · · 1 min read

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Earlier this summer, Nehad Hasan decided to travel from his home in Lebanon to Syria for a family vacation. He wanted his children to meet extended family and to see their ancestral homeland of Afrin, a Kurdish-majority region in northwest Syria. As the pastor of a Kurdish church in Lebanon, he also

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