Patriarch John X Yazigi: Christians Won’t Leave Syria However Difficult the Circumstances Will Become

 WARSAW, (ST)- Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East John X Yazigi has stressed that the Christians now, more than ever, are adherent to their land Syria and they won’t leave it however difficult the circumstances will become.

 Upon his arrival in Warsaw on Tuesday on a visit to Poland leading a delegation of clergymen, Patriarch Yazigi said “the terrorist war on Syria began five years ago under false pretexts and we, as Christians, like the rest of the people in Syria, are paying expensively because of this war in the form of displacement, killing, kidnapping, violence, terrorism and instability.”

The patriarch talked about the crimes being committed by the terrorists in Syria, including the destruction of churches, mosques and archeological monuments, and condemned the international community’s silence over the terrorists’ atrocities, particularly the kidnapping of the two Aleppo bishops Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi who have been abducted for more than three years.

Hamda Mustafa