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Surviving Syrian refugee family members hold close to one another.

Syrian pastor won’t abandon his church, despite ISIS brutality

October 5, 2015

By Kelly Ledbetter, Christian Examiner

SWEIDA, Syria (Christian Examiner) – After a car bomb went off in his city last month, a pastor is faced again with the choice to flee the encroaching reach of ISIS in Syria, but he doesn’t want to leave his new church.

In a report from Christian Aid Mission, the pastor, whose name has been withheld for security reasons, speaks out about his precarious situation, his fears for his family and church, and why he won’t leave.

“As ISIS pushes westward inside Syria, Christians are in the crosshairs,” said the Middle East director of Christian Aid Mission. “They’re running out of places where they can safely flee.”

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Sixty years of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

By Kelly Boggs, special to the Baptist Message DALLAS (LBM) -- “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the beloved animated television program, turns sixty this year, and it is hard to imagine that it almost did not air. Network executives thought it moved too slowly for a Christmas special. They also were … Read More

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