Ghassan Ward, the priest at the Greek Orthodox Church in Aleppo, has chosen to stay and continue to serve his community with support from Open Doors, despite losing friends and family to kidnappings and bombings during the war.
Ghassan told Open Doors: “My bishop was kidnapped in April 2013, my church was destroyed, and my house was bombed.
My two sons left the country, my wife died of cancer and I lost two of my close family members because of the bombings.”