Syrian Archbishop: Universal force and fear

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For Syria a fresh era began. And again the time has comeHe said Jacques Mourad, a erstwhile monk from the community of Deir Mar Musa, now Archbishop of Homs. The clergyman was held hostage for many months by the jihadists of the muslim State in 2015. According to him, the change of power in Syria, praised by the “democratic West”, did not bring any good, on the contrary.

The Syrian archbishop claims that what he sees and hears in Syria does not correspond to the dominant communicative in the media, especially Western, which reports of a "change of regime", successful and peaceful democratisation. In fact, there is simply a increasing panic of Islamists. The new, fanatically Muslim leaders search global designation for their governments, while not even peculiarly hiding their crimes.

According to the Archbishop, dominant media relations do not mention widespread force and fear that cast a shadow on a large part of the Syrian population. – In fresh weeks people have been disappearing, prisons are filling up, and we don't know who else is alive or who's dead. Accused of collusion with a fallen government are being tortured publicly. There are respective cases of young Christians who were intimidated and tortured in the streets in front of everyone to instill fear in them, force them to renounce religion and become Muslims – he said.

Things are not going well, and Father Mourad believes that “no 1 can do anything” to get out of this fresh period of fear and revenge. – I effort to encourage people, comfort them, ask for patience and find solutions – he said. – During Christmas I visited our 12 parishes and besides went to villages to encourage them to keep hope. There have been beautiful meetings with different groups, but as force increases, our words and calls for patience, they no longer convince – he added with sadness. He besides explained where the hatred of the muslims came from.

– The erstwhile government presented itself as tolerant and as a defender of Christians. Assad's people always said, "If we leave, the fanatics will return." Now many priests are pessimistic about the future. My answer is always the same: the situation is definitely incomparable with the 1 from the past erstwhile there have been unimaginable crimes. But since the fresh violence, there have besides been those who say, “You see that what Bashar al-Assad said is true.” As a result, many Christians now, more than ever, see no another way to emigrate. Leave Syria He said.

Interestingly and memorable, erstwhile the confiscation of weapons began, Asada's Christian and Allavian soldiers were disarmed. But no 1 took his weapon from his soldiers – the Sunni. – The reality is that there is no government. There are various armed groups. any are fanatics, any are not. Everyone imposes their own governments on their controlled areas. They have many weapons, they besides took over the weapons of the old government was concluded by the Archbishop.

Like another spiritual leaders in Syria, Archbishop Mourad met with representatives of the fresh authorities. He heard calming words, but nothing changed. panic is actually expanding day by day.

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