Lebanon – LBC International, December 24, 2024
U.S. group Hostage Aid Worldwide said Tuesday that it believed Syrian-American bishop Yohanna Ibrahim, missing in Syria since 2013, was being held by the authorities under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.
“He is a U.S. citizen,” the group’s Nizar Zakka told reporters in Damascus, adding Ibrahim “was seen in 2018 in Branch 291” of the security forces. The senior Aleppo cleric of the Syriac Orthodox Church was kidnapped in April 2013.
