in syria that teacher ask how much of malacca had long the symbol of the christian presence there last attended many residents were forced to flee the growing civil war. three months later hundreds of christian families are now getting ready for a very bleak christmas and damascus far from home the new insights and joseph's church in damascus. christians are getting ready to celebrate christmas. many gay are refugees from i'm a small city in time the right to head the seventh of september and with the conflict in syria showing no sign of it many here will once again celebrate christmas without their loved ones. they were at eleven am. i lost my brother my son to my cousins i miss all of them for christmas. it was sad last year and a series of fate. i want to go back home with my head held high. some fourteen years now. this tied in the year. the greek catholic patriarch himself gifts to each family. the cia it's a sealed envelope filled with cash. a small but welcome token for the holidays. we had a nobleman said through a messy and all delight children and being too tragic time stood