Two more Christian villages in Syria fall into Al Qaeda hands .....

and although Assad's propaganda machines are saying they have retaken the villages from the gangs, I don't believe them ... not after Maaloula.  Remember, they said the same thing about Maaloula .... however, Maaloula is still not liberated from terrorists.

From ChristianToday:
Islamist rebels besieged two Christian villages   in Syria, killing around 13 people and forcing thousands of families to evacuate their homes. 
Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front stormed Saddad and Haffar on Monday last week (21 October). Until then, the villages had been relatively safe, and thousands of internally displaced families had sought refuge there. 
A Barnabas Fund partner described the scene as 60 armed vehicles entered Saddad: "As the vehicles and armed personnel made their way through the streets, the shouting of “Allah Akbar” [“Allah is great”] and the touting of the Quran made it clear to both permanent and displaced that their time of relative tranquility was quickly coming to an end. As the armed groups began to set up sniper posts and a campaign of shelling, the day moved from bad to worse."



He said children were crying in fear as the militants took over the villages. It is thought that they were being used as a launching point for strikes against a nearby army base and arsenal. The villages are strategically located between the central city of Homs and the capital Damascus.
Around 13 people were killed, with many more wounded, and while many fled, thousands were held as a human shield. 
Our partners helped Christian families to evacuate to neighbouring villages, Homs and Damascus. Barnabas sent funds to provide transport, blankets, food parcels and other essentials........

Two days ago Archbishop of the Orthodox Church made an appeal on behalf of the Christians in the besieged villages:
Appeal from Archbishop Selwanos Boutros  for the safety of Christians in Saddad & Homs in Syria.
To all international, humanitarian and religions organizations and institutions and to who have a humanitarian role in the world, To all people with good intentions in the world
I call for you today on behalves of all the innocent people including elders, women, children, young men and women trapped in an areas, where we can’t reach them nor can they reach us in Sadad & Alhafar. I appeal to the groups forbidding them from leaving sieged areas and to negotiate with them an evacuation in a safe way where they wouldn’t be harmed. Allowing them to move to Derattiah direction or in Homs direction where we will be waiting to receive them........