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Archbishop of Aleppo: Russian airstrikes 'source of hope' for Christians in Syria
2015-10-09
[ARA] Russia's military buildup in Syria is "a source of hope" for the country's Christians, the Melkite Greek Catholic archbishop of Aleppo Jean-Clement Jeanbart said on Thursday.

Jeanbart welcomed the Russian military intervention in Syria, saying that the Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
"serves the Christians' cause".

The archbishop said in an interview with Suisse Romande television that the Russian Arclight airstrikes on Islamists "renewed the confidence among Christians in Syria".

Syrian Christians, among other minorities, have suffered suppression during the nearly five-year war, especially at the hands of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) radical group.

ISIS executed on Wednesday three Christian Assyrians who have been taken as hostages last February after a major offensive by the krazed killer group on Christian areas in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria.
Posted by:Fred

#2  An ex-KGB Christian crusader?
Stranger things have happened.

He moves in mysterious ways, and even the devil does His work in the end.
Posted by: Nguard   2015-10-09 15:54  

#1  An ex-KGB Christian crusader?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-10-09 05:06  

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