John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East./ mospat.ru
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catholicculture.org
July
29, 2015
Speaking
recently in Boston, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch lamented the
suffering of the Middle East's Christians and pleaded for peace.
"We
have priests, monks, nuns, people and martyrs - their only crime is that they
hold the entity of Christianity," said Patriarch John X. "We have
brothers who were forced to [e]migrate, others obliged to pay tributes. We have
people carrying their lives over their hands whilst living within the rockets
range, which did not spare a school nor civilians, nor military people in Damascus
and all around Syria."
"Protecting
this land happens through looking with humanitarian eye to all what is
happening, not in the eye of interests," he added. "From here, from
this place, I raise my voice east and west and I say to all the world: let us
live, let our people live, and do not make our land a circuit of conflicts.
What is happening in our land is a blind terrorism that we are not used
to."
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