Syria: Assad to Rebuild Memorial Church of Armenian Genocide in Deir ez-Zor

Zenit News Agency ^ | 1/12/19

[marshmallow]

Devastated by Jihadists of the Islamic State in 2014

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has pledged to rebuild with state funding the church-sanctuary of the Armenian martyrs located in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, which was devastated by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh ) in September 2014, Fides News Agency reported January 11, 2019.

The intention to revive the shrine dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide from its rubble – refer Armenian sources such as Armenpress, and also channel Ishtar TV – was expressed by the Syrian President during a recent meeting with a delegation of Armenian businessmen visiting Syria, led by George Parseghian, President of the representative committee of Armenian Syrians in Armenia.

In September 2014, the jihadists of Daesh conquered about half of the urban area of Deir ez-Zor, an eastern Syrian city with a Kurdish majority, and a few days later destroyed the church where the remains of the victims of the Armenian Genocide were kept.

The church was consecrated in 1991 as a memorial of the Genocide and also included a museum with the remains of the victims of the massacres suffered by the Armenians in Ottoman territory between 1915 and 1916, which had recorded a particular concentration in the desert area around Deir ez-Zor.

In the governorate of Deir el-Zor, the jihadists killed hundreds of members belonging to the local tribal clan and in previous months also fought with the Islamist militiamen of the al-Nusra rival faction to gain control of the area, rich in oil. The city was reconquered by the Syrian government army in November 2017, but jihadist groups still continue to carry out targeted attacks in the surrounding areas.

[DesertRhino]

The Saudis, who forbid Christian churches, are still trying to remove Assad, who is rebuilding one and even had a Synagogue till the sunni jihadi civil war destroyed it.

[dfwgator]

Go Assad!

[DesertRhino]

I had this cool idea on how to run that pipeline they want from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States into Europe and avid Syria. You go through Jordan, then right through Israel and out into the Mediterranean into Turkey.

Of course, you would have to openly do business with the dreaded Jews.

[2banana]

I hope McCain is enjoying hell...

NOT

[PCPOET7]

this is one of the reasons why I have come not to trust the news take on Syria. the other is an ecounter I had with a Christian who was from Syria. I was talking about how bad Assad was and he looked at me and said that at least with Assad he knows the government will protect the country from religious zealots. he then asked me if we got rid of the man as leader who would replace him and what would happen to anyone that was a part of the religious minority or were dissidents with in Islam that lived in the country.

the only thing I no is that we should not be there. we should try never start a civil war or take sides in a civil war.

[dfwgator]

Yep, Assad belongs to the Ba’athist Party, like Saddam Hussein, which started out more as a Secularist movement, although for convenience, Saddam eventually aligned with the Islamists.

[Snowybear]

Assad protected the Christian minority. SA will protect the Kurds. We’re right in getting out.

-SB

[sockmonkey]

I am impressed by Secular Syria where Muslims have helped to repair Churches, and Christians cook for their Muslim neighbors on their feast days.
To see the Muslim community take part in Christmas celebrations to support Christians.

With the West, Israel, and Salafists working to destroy Syria, I think the people and their leader Assad have done the near impossible in preserving their country. Cities destroyed, Over 500,000 dead, priceless antiquities, and architecture demolished, resources plundered, their oilfields occupied, and the stolen oil sold by foreign Invaders. Sanctions keeping lifesaving cancer medications from their children’s cancer hospitals.