No one was hurt when Aleppo’s Emmanuel Armenian Evangelical Church was hit in a rocket attack on Sunday 17 January, leaving the church badly damaged, but thankfully missing congregants who had met earlier that morning.
The 200-strong congregation met at 10 am for their regular Sunday worship and afterwards several activities for different groups took place. The last to leave the building was the youth group. ‘Thanks to God no one was hurt and the church was empty!’ wrote a Barnabas Fund partner the next day.
Conditions in Aleppo are particularly distressing at present. Over the weekend, many rockets hit Christian communities in the city, killing seven people and leaving 53 wounded.
