Allentown Syrian Orthodox Church hosts festival to support victims of Damascus attack

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The Syrian Orthodox community of Allentown came together Sunday for a one-day festival to raise funds for victims of an attack on a church Mass in Damascus, Syria.

The festival, at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, sought to help the people of Prophet Elias Church (Mar Elisa) after a suicide bomb detonated June 22 during an evening Mass.

It killed 25 people and wounded more than 50 others…

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