Damascus Countryside, (SANA) – Local sources in the town of Maaloula in Damascus Countryside said that terrorists broke into St. Thecla Convent and held Mother Superior Pelagia Sayyaf and a number of nuns hostage.
The sources told SANA that the terrorists also committed acts of vandal.
Head of the Higher Committee for Relief, Social Affairs Minister Kinda al-Shammat, voiced concern over this incident, holding the terrorist groups and the countries that fund and arm them responsible for the lives of the Mother Superior and the nuns they are holding hostage.
Al-Shammat called on the international community and organizations to pressure the countries supporting terrorists to release the hostages along with all abductees held by terrorists in Syria