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War-torn Syria faces losing its Christian community
Syriac Catholic patriarch calls on Western countries to lift all economic sanctions because they only harm the innocent
Updated: May 25, 2021 04:45 AM GMT
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The Bajet Kandala camp for displaced Yazidis near Dohuk, 430 kilometers northwest of the Iraqi capital, by the border with Syria, on Nov. 18, 2020. (Photo: Florent Vergens/AFP)
The Syriac Catholic patriarch said the situation in Syria continues to be humanly unbearable and devastating and risks emptying the war-torn country of its Christian community for good.
Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan called on Western countries to lift all economic sanctions against Syria because they only harm the innocent.
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Syria situation ‘devastating,’ threatens Christian community
Doreen Abi Raad / CNS | 05.24.2021
BEIRUT (CNS) The Syriac Catholic patriarch said the situation in Syria “continues to be humanly unbearable and devastating” and risks emptying the war-torn country of its Christian community for good.
Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan called on Western countries to lift “all economic sanctions against Syria, because they only harm the innocent.”
“The economic sanctions imposed on Syrian people by the Western governments in the name of democracy and political liberty have created horrendous consequences in a country that endured wars, siege and abandonment for over 10 years,” Patriarch Younan told Catholic News Service May 23 after visiting Syria.