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Last Christian in Idlib recalls his community

The last Christian in Idlib is 90 years old. Despite the war and the challenges, he stayed in Idlib even as all Christians left as a result of the war and restrictions imposed by extremist Islamic factions.

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Children stand outside the abandoned Armenian Apostolic Church of Saint Anna, which was converted to house a family of Syrians displaced by conflict, in the town of al-Yaqubiyah in the western countryside of Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on Dec. 27, 2021. — AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images

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