International Shia News Agency

80-year-old church in Syria blows by Takfiri IS

SHAFAQNA – Takfiri terrorists of so-called Islamic State blew up an 80-year-old church in Syria’s northeastern province of Hassaka on Easter Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said.SANA, which did not report any casualties, said the takfiri militants had planted explosives inside the Church of the Virgin Mary in Tel Nasri, an Assyrian village in an area where Christian and Kurdish militia have been battling Islamic State.Takfiri Islamic State controls the village, the news agency said on Monday.

The militant group, which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, espouses a fiercely purist school of Sunni Islam, deeming many other Muslims to be heretics. Its fighters have destroyed Shia and Sufi religious sites and also attacked churches.

Source : http://www.skpak.com/

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