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'Moscow Gives us Hope', Says Syrian Catholic Patriarch
ANSA Med ^ | 1/28/16

Posted on 01/30/2016 10:39:37 AM PST by marshmallow

'We will thank anyone who helps us stay in our country'

ROME - Syrian Catholic Church patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan has said that he approves of Russia's actions as an attempt to resolve the Syrian conflict and defeat the Islamic State (ISIS). "The Russian intervention gives us a bit of hope in this tragic situation," he said. "Russia has helped Syria a great deal to retake and liberate cities and villages under the control of terrorist groups." "Syrian Christians are grateful to Russia," he said.

"Since it intervened, many things have changed on the ground." "We will thank anyone who helps us to remain in our country," he added, expressing gratitude towards the Russian Orthodox Church for its words of support to local Christian communities, "which we have not received from other parts with the same determination." "Our anguish and our screams of alarm is that something is happening in Iraq and Syria that has already happened in Turkey: Christians are disappearing in the very lands where Christianity was born."

(Excerpt) Read more at ansamed.info ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Islam; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: christian; russia; syria

1 posted on 01/30/2016 10:39:37 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Perhaps Vladimir Putin is more pro-Christian than any of us realize. Not saying that Putin IS a practicing Christian, but he does extend an umbrella of protection for them, which is WAY more than West European or North American leaders are doing.


2 posted on 01/30/2016 10:44:23 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: marshmallow

This is Good news for once in Syria. Thank the Lord for their reprieve.


3 posted on 01/30/2016 10:44:35 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: marshmallow

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

the Islamic terrorists are “fleeing” from Syria..

the Christians are staying...


4 posted on 01/30/2016 10:46:06 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: marshmallow

This is significant. There are millions of Christians in the middle east, and the attitude of Europe and Obama is that they’ll let these people immigrate.

The vast majority don’t WANT to immigrate. They want to stay where they’ve been for 2000 years and more. Why should the middle east be emptied of Christians? Liberals want to eradicate Christians from the land where Christianity was born, whether it’s Syria, Iraq, Lebanon or Israel.

Russia is working to keep Christians in the middle east, Obama and Europe want to relocate them.

This is a case where Russia gets it right.


5 posted on 01/30/2016 11:12:31 AM PST by Gunpowder green
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To: marshmallow

‘Moscow Gives us Hope’, Says Syrian Catholic Patriarch

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30 years ago who thought they’d live to see that headline?


6 posted on 01/30/2016 11:16:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: marshmallow

How come they couldn’t seek help from the Pope?


7 posted on 01/30/2016 11:43:35 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump then Cruz for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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To: marshmallow

truly a sad day


8 posted on 01/30/2016 11:48:23 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: alloysteel

Putin is first, last, and always a KGB commie. He does what helps him out.


9 posted on 01/30/2016 11:49:03 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Yet at least he is doing what the west should have been doing, standing up for the Christians in the Middle East.


10 posted on 01/30/2016 2:37:52 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: MotorCityBuck
This is Good news for once in Syria. Thank the Lord for their reprieve.

Amen to that.

11 posted on 01/30/2016 4:12:51 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Nifster
Putin is first, last, and always a KGB commie. He does what helps him out.

So true.

I really believe that Putin would DEARLY love to have the position of TSAR reinstated and... OF COURSE he would be Tsar...another Tsar Vladimir.

12 posted on 01/30/2016 4:15:33 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Biggirl

and more’s the shame for the US


13 posted on 01/30/2016 5:48:50 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: cloudmountain

indeed


14 posted on 01/30/2016 5:49:09 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: stocksthatgoup

The Pope does not have an army like he did back in the days when Italy from Florence to Naples was part of the Papal States. Russia has an army and is was the Russian Government under Putin that commenced military action against the ISIS mohammedans. It is probably more accurate to ask where is England, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, i.e. Nato in all this, as well as U.S.

I am not for putting American ground troops in Syria but U.S. airpower could have definitely been used, in my opinion.


15 posted on 01/30/2016 7:12:15 PM PST by CTrent1564
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To: marshmallow
I posted this article also but only got 6 comments so I am glad more people read it with your post.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3390256/posts

16 posted on 02/01/2016 12:39:56 PM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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