Syrian Christians

Donald Trump’s Victory: Hope for AmericaWhat Went Wrong for the CryptocracyBy Michael Hoffmanwww.RevisionistHistory.orgAt our family’s Sunday dinner, after we say grace and before we dig in to the repast, we ask each one at our table, “What are you grateful for?” In our home we try to make gratitude king, beginning with gratitude to our Creator, parents and one another. Because our American First populist movement has suffered defeat after defeat, people in our ranks have become warped; favors small and large from Divine Providence are overl

Christmas celebration in the streets of Latakia, Syria. Credit: The Saker.
 
 

US leaders have their heads stuck deep up into their own delusions, the events on the ground are slowly but steadily reinforcing the Russian position and vindicating Russia’s stance

Since the terrorists have swept the secularists aside, Christian Syrians–long protected by Assad—are now being “disappeared” by the millions.  By the millions!  Of the 1.8 million Christians that lived peacefully under Assad before the Arab Spring, only 400,000 Christians still live in intact communities in Syria today. The rest are either dead or fled–we know not where.

It’s time the West joins Russia in protecting Christians in the Middle East
 
 by William Weding

After presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson called the Syrians refugees rabid dogs, Father Theodoros Daoud , an Antiochian Orthodox Christian priest sends him this letter:
 
Dear rabid dog Dr. Ben Carson,
I hope this word will not offend you, doctor. If it does, I don’t care because you have offended each one of the 9 million Syrian refugees by calling them rabid dogs. You, along with every politician who caused Syria—the land of Saint Peter and Paul, the Apostles and the saints—to bleed to death, are evil rabid dogs.

The body of a man crucified by Islamic State killers hangs beside a road in Syria

A Daesh victory was unacceptable for the Russians as the traditional custodians of Syrian Christians, for Daesh is very bad for Christians. Some were slaughtered and some had to flee. From this point of view, al Qaeda, al Nusra and similar extreme groups are not better.

Photo: The freed Nuns of Ma’loula temporarily working at St. George Monastary at the entrance of Wadi al Nasara waitng to return to Mar Takla monastery and their orphanage in Ma’loula (photo 8/4/2015 N. Makhoul).
 
 
According to an aide to His Beatitude Youhanna X Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All The East, who briefed this observer on 8/4/2015 at the 6th century monastery of St. George, before the current crisis there were approximately 1.2 million Christians in Syria. Today there are estimated to be fewer than 400,000
 

“Symbols related to Christianity were removed. Even from inside houses. If you had a picture of the Virgin Mary, they removed it.”

 

Al-Nusra militants by the way are being identified as some of the most active dealers of black market antiques of the Middle East. Lebanese media have reported that a great number of ancient icons, crosses, reliquaries, and statues have been smuggled from Syria into Lebanon and then sent abroad. Local smugglers are said by INTERPOL to be moving hundreds of Ma’loula’s antiquities, transporting Christian antiquities to European countries

Raqqa Christians forced to pay a special tax to the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant, and are strictly forbidden to wear or exhibited crosses in any way.  Christians are forbidden to repair or maintain war-damaged churches. Christians are not allowed to recite any prayer in the presence of Muslims, and are subject to conservative dress codes as imposed by ISIL

This is an excerpt from an interview with the Archbishop of Hassakeh-Nisibi for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Behnan Hindo, where he expresses his anger at Western foreign policy that has been actively backing hardline Wahhabi terrorists to topple the Syrian government while causing all Syrians to suffer as a result.
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Source KTO