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Religious divides deepen in Syria  The fronts in the Syrian
conflict are increasingly hardening along religious lines. But
the prospects for the Christian, Druze and Alawite minorities
are all very different.  The various religious communities in
Syria lived together peacefully for decades. But the ongoing
conflict in the country is tearing ever deeper divides between
the faiths. In its latest report on the violence in Syria, the
United Nations Human Rights Council warned of the growing role
of religion in the conflict.  Syria is an ethnic and religious
patchwork. Three quarters of the around 22 million Syrians are
Sunni Muslims. Alawites and Christians each represent 10 percent
of the population. On top of that, several hundred thousand
Druze, Shiites and Yazidi also live in the country. Beyond
religion, ethnic tensions have also intensified between the Arab
majority and the Kurdish population in Syr