[Article from the Gatestone Institute, May 1, 2016] As opposed to their Western counterparts, Christian leaders who live in the Middle East continued expressing their frustration at the West’s indifference and worse. Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic archbishop of Aleppo, asked during an interview: “Why are your bishops silent on a threat that is […]
Robert Spencer in FP: Syrian Archbishop to West: “Why Are Your Bishops Silent?”
Silent about a threat that is theirs today as well. My column in FrontPage today: Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview with a French reporter, in which he was highly critical of the mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim persecution of Middle […]
Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop to West: “Why are your bishops silent on a threat that is yours today as well?”
“Open your eyes, didn’t you see what happened recently in Paris?” No, they didn’t see it. They didn’t want to see it. Archbishop Jeanbart is not the first to say this. “Why, we ask the western world, why not raise one’s voice over so much ferocity and injustice?” asked Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of […]
Syrian Archbishop: Christians are “prime target’ of Islamic State
Archbishop Jeanbart ‘called on the West to act to save Syria from the ‘fundamentalist, jihadist mercenaries’ who are ‘killing anyone who would speak of freedom, citizenship, religious freedom and democracy.’” The West won’t lift a finger to do this. Archbishop Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, should ask his colleagues in the West […]
Iraqi archbishop: US more concerned about image of Islam than victims of persecution
Archbishop Warda said: “All the statements (by U.S. government and media) have not condemned strongly what damage it is doing. What they are saying is just ‘This is not the true Islam. This is violating the picture of Islam.’ The issue for them is the image of Islam, but none of these statements speak about […]
Syrian Archbishop: “We expect Christians in the West to help us. They do not”
Why don’t the Christians in the West help them? Because it might harm the dialogue: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February […]