Syria : Blind sheikhs

DAMASCUS, SYRIA:
These blind men
sitting outside a mosque in Damascus are Muslim Sheikhs, who are believed by Muslims to have the power to heal and grant children to barren mothers, a Christian-like power which only Jesus talked about.
Damascus old city is famous for the Ummayad mosque, which holds the head of St-John the Baptist, also considered [...]

Going Christ mad in Syria

CHURCH sHOPPING HOPPING in ALLEPO, SYRIA

One Sunday night,
in one of those quiet periods of Ramadhan after sunset and before the night market madness, we decided to create some frenzy of our own by visiting a series of churches in the shortest amount of time — because we can.
Within a block of each other stands
Armenian, Greek, [...]

A prisoner at Sheremetyevo Moscow

The trauma in Armenia
is just starting to sink in as we left that god-forsaken country and now was in the air with Dmitri, our Russian escort from AEROFLOT the airlines which had first flown us in.
As expected, when we landed in Moscow – we were robbed in broad daylight as the so-called airport security chief [...]

stuck in the MOSCOW airport

Between a rock and a hard place. Find out how I got this scar before being deported from Armenia and why I spent one whole day at the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow,
taking these photos.

The story starts here.

PART 3: EXIT ARMENIA, but before that …

We were taken away, though not by force, by the POLICE to a security prison
at the airport after that. Eventhough the experience may have intimidated or had us in fear normally, we were calm and brave as the officials were also we sensed, nothing more than bumbling idiots.
We were of course praying all the [...]