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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … in Syria

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Aleteia Image Department - published on 12/21/17
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Photo of the Day: December 21, 2017A Syrian man decorates the Saint Mary Church of the Holy Belt (Umm Al-Zennar Church) with a Christmas Nativity scene in the Christian-majority neighborhood of Hamidiyeh in the old city of Homs on December 17, 2017. A metallic green Christmas tree towers over the bombed-out heart of Syria’s third city Homs, where residents are relishing a holiday cheer they haven’t felt in years.

Photograph by Youssef Karwashan for AFP

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