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Clerics held for two months after ambush in which driver of their car was killed
Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 06:00
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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.
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The bishops were the most senior Christian clerics to be abducted during the two-year conflict although both Christian and Muslim religious figures have been kidnapped and slain.
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