i want maloula to be better and more beautiful than it used to be, she says.n when i ask how many of them have had to flee their home. islamist rebels led by al qaeda's wing in syria, invaded maloula in late 2013. this video by one of the groups allegedly shows a suicide blast that took out the checkpoint to the village. the rebels kidnapped 12 nuns from a convent. it took more than six months of intense battles to oust them. but scars remain. this is the same convent and shrine, or what's left of it. a warning to syria's christian community. while some buildings here in maloula have been restored, others remain exactly like this, completely destroyed and mostly burned out. and of course many people who live in this town ask themselves whether christianist still has a future here in syria. syria is home to one of the oldest christian communities in the world. maloula is the last place where the aramaic that jesus spoke is still in use. but groups like isis have vowed to oust the christians from this land. this member of maloula's city council shows me just som