Homs is a city in Syria located 100 miles north of Damascus. As recently as 2005, it was a prosperous industrial center with the nation’s primary oil refineries.
Today it has largely been devastated by the ongoing civil war. Homs was the capital of the Syrian revolution, beginning with street protests starting in 2011. The government response was swift and brutal, and over the next years, street-to-street fighting in Homs destroyed the city.
The human cost of this war is frightening. 6.8 million people are displaced within Syria. More than six million children need emergency aid. Seven out of 10 people in Syria require some level of humanitarian aid to survive.
Prior to the war, Christians were 10% of the population. The largest denomination was Greek Orthodox. Currently, a small minority of Protestants is in the country.
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110 నగరాలు - IPC యొక్క ప్రాజెక్ట్ a US 501(c)(3) No 85-3845307 | మరింత సమాచారం | సైట్ ద్వారా: IPC మీడియా