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“Bless them, O Lord, as You blessed Abraham and Sarah. … Bless them, O Lord, as You blessed Joachim and Anna.”
The priest of the church in Jaramana, which is mostly Orthodox Christian, said the above verse as he presided over the marriage of a young couple from his flock. That was on a Sunday last September. Sinda and Tarek had been planning this moment for the past three years. But it never occurred to them that they would be getting married under the sound of bullets and shelling, and a growing feeling among the people of Jaramana that their future with their Muslim neighbors was no longer guaranteed.
