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Maaloula, Syria – 12 January 2025
1. Various of church
2. Various of church service
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Father Jalal Ghazal, a member of the clergy in Maaloula:
"We spoke with the leadership until we reached Mr. Ahmed Al-Sharaa (Syria’s interim president). We explained to him the situation in Maaloula, and he sent us people and protection, but they did not stay long. They stayed for a short period, two or three days and then they left. But our voices were heard.”
4. Various of damaged building in Maaloula village
5. Buildings and cars in village
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sameera Thabet, Maaloula resident:
"When the regime fell, we were living in fear. We left in the middle of the night, we didn’t know if they, Nusra Front, would come and slaughter us again. There is a difference between a transitional government, Daesh (using an acronym to refer to the Islamic State militants) and Nusra Front, who are coming with the goal of revenge. We fled to Damascus at night. But the next day, we came back after we heard that our houses were being looted."
7. Various of Father Fadi Barjeel inside church
8. Interior of church
9. Barjeel lighting candle
10. Buildings seen from above next to the rocky slopes of the town
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Father Fadi Bargeel, priest:
"Unfortunately, this language (Aramaic) today is not written. They are teaching it a little, but it is not written. The wars came and affected us greatly, the displacement came and affected us greatly, because people were forced to go from place to place. When you live in your village, you are speaking with everyone. When you move away, you begin to forget it little by little. And that is the danger.”
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ARCHIVE: Maaloula, Syria – 3 March 2016
12. Various of damage to church in Maaloula
13. Damage to mosaic inside church
14. People inspecting damage
15. Partially charred image of Jesus
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Maaloula, Syria – 12 January 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Father Fadi Bargeel, priest:
"The moment a child is a born, the Aramaic language would be spoken at home. When he starts to understand, he starts speaking Aramaic even more than the Arabic language. When we started going to school as children, we didn’t know Arabic, because we got used to speaking this language amongst ourselves. So the Arabic language became secondary."
17. Interior of church
18. Various of choir members singing
19. Clergyman during worship
20. Worshippers during prayers
21. Sameera Thabet praying at church
22. Worshippers
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sameera Thabet, Maaloula resident:
"Certainly, neither we nor our children will leave the Aramaic language. And we will never forget it, it is the language of Jesus. Only a minority of a minority now speak the language of Jesus. Our goal is to teach it to our children and our grandchildren, so that it can continue being a language (that’s spoken). The language of Jesus is a treasure for us. Something that we take pride in is that we are still on this land and that we can still speak the language of Jesus."
24. Various of people getting communion
25. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sameera Thabet, Maaloula resident:
"We are not afraid of anything. God who put us on this land will protect us. We have hope in this new transitional government, that this country will be a civil state and that all factions of society would participate in the state so that Syria can be the best country in the world. We have hope."
26. Churches
28. Church
STORYLINE:
The town is also home to Syria’s two oldest active monasteries.
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