Born to a poor Muslim family in a small village in China, Lan has to leave school and look for a job after his father's death.

蓝出生在一个很偏远的山村，父亲的去世让这个懂事的孩子主动辍学打工贴补家用。

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Al-Bayda is reportedly a predominantly Sunni Muslim village located in an area inhabited largely by members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, a heterodox offshoot of Shia Islam.

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"Whether you take a Christian village in the north of Lebanon or a Muslim village in the south, the DNA make-up of its residents is likely to be identical, " says Dr Zalloua.

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"It's a very dangerous situation because in some cases the whole village becomes Muslim, " he says.

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