Here we go again.

Another week, another series of bloody massacres in Syria and still the world turns the other way and yawns.

So far, the three-year conflict has produced headlines, pictures, online chatter, human tragedy and calls for action, but no peace, let alone a ceasefire.

The war has spilled periodically across Syria’s borders with Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey and threatened to engulf an already dangerously unsettled region.

There have been grand proclamations made in the United Nations, of course. There always is. A warning from U.S. President Barack Obama that the use of chemical warfare by any side in the conflict will be a “game changer” has joined them.

All the while we see a vicious government dominated by minority Alawite Muslims squaring off with rebels led by Sunni Muslims and a death toll that last month tipped over 100,000.

The pity in Syria is that the civil war can’t have two losers rather than a single winner.

A victory for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will see more of the persecution and revenge killings that remain a highlight of his brutal Soviet- and Iran-backed rule.

A victory for the rag-tag members of the opposition rebel forces, known as the Free Syrian Army, would see it tap its own reservoir of hate while giving vent to al-Qaida jihadists to continue battling anyone they see as an ideological foe.

For all the mayhem and suffering the opposing sides in this civil war have caused, there is a side issue that the world’s media has ignored to its eternal condemnation.

Christians have been caught in the crossfire — literally and figuratively — and paid a heavy price of their own. Just like they have in Egypt and Iraq.

Here’s a single example. One week ago, al-Qaida-linked fighters in the rebel-held eastern Syrian city of Raqqa abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against Assad’s government.

The terrorists kidnapped father Paolo Dall’Oglio while he was walking in the city, which had fallen under the control of militant Islamist brigades, sources told Reuters news agency.

Syrian authorities had expelled Dall’Oglio from the country last year after he helped victims of Assad’s military crackdown from a monastery north of Damascus.

He is still missing and joins the 5,000 or so casualties reported every month since the conflict began.

A subcommittee hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives heard testimony in June from Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Centre for Religious Freedom, highlighting the problem facing Syria’s Christians.

“Christians are the targets of an ethno-religious cleansing by Islamist militants and courts. In addition, they have lost the protection of the Assad government, making them easy prey for criminals and fighters, whose affiliations are not always clear.

“Wherever they appear, Islamist militias have made life impossible for the Christians.”

If that sounds bad enough, consider this.

Peace, freedom, democracy and equality are all conspicuously missing in Assad’s Syria, but that doesn’t stop his appalling steps to counter the world’s image of his nation.

The president already has a Facebook page, Twitter account and a YouTube channel. Now, Assad is turning to the popular photo-sharing service Instagram in the latest attempt at improving his image as his country burns.

A pity those pictures don’t have the ability to carry the stench of death because then the world might have a better chance of experiencing just what the fight in Syria is costing in terms of human lives.

If we cared enough to look.