Prayers for the Orthodox and fellow Christians in Syria

[Lukaris]

The Syrian Patriarchs seem to be all right at present. Unfortunately, those long missing ( since 2013), remain so.

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

www.antiochian.org

Bishop Denies Threats Amidst Spread of Fake News in Aleppo

"It is not true that jihadists have threatened the Greek Orthodox bishop of Aleppo, Ephraim Malouli, to behead him. I was with him yesterday afternoon and he was calm. Unfortunately, fake news is...

www.ilmessaggero.it

Prayers for their continued witness, safety, & wellbeing.

 

[prodromos]

The Syrian Patriarchs seem to be all right at present. Unfortunately, those long missing ( since 2013), remain so.

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

www.antiochian.org

Bishop Denies Threats Amidst Spread of Fake News in Aleppo

"It is not true that jihadists have threatened the Greek Orthodox bishop of Aleppo, Ephraim Malouli, to behead him. I was with him yesterday afternoon and he was calm. Unfortunately, fake news is...

www.ilmessaggero.it

Prayers for their continued witness, safety, & wellbeing.

Thank you for your correction. My wife's family has history in Aleppo, so we are a little over sensitive to news we hear from there.

 

[rusmeister]

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Hi, Nick,
The trouble with what you’re saying is that there is not a lot of thought behind it. You are stating an incredibly oversimplified narrative. “Assad is a really bad man.” OK. Let’s grant that. My previous questions stand unanswered. What did his rule mean for non-Muslims in Syria, and what does the change to a serious traditional Muslim regime that believes in jihad of the sword, paying the jizyaa, taqiyya, and all the rest mean for all those people? You’re not demonstrating actual thinking about any complications here. You could convince me otherwise by actually showing thinking about sides of Assad that maybe weren’t entirely demonic, even though we’ll assume and grant that he has done a lot of evil things to his own enemies.

 

[The Liturgist]

My apologies. I had no means of checking the veracity of the above claim and accepted it at face value, since it was consistent with their past actions. I will not post any more of such claims unless I can confirm them.

Forgive me.

Officially we still do not know what happened to Metropolitan Paul and Archbishop Gregorios. The Antiochians continue to regard Metropolitan Paul as in captivity, and I as far as I am aware this is the Syriac Orthodox position as well.

 

[The Liturgist]

Thank you for your correction. My wife's family has history in Aleppo, so we are a little over sensitive to news we hear from there.

I have Syriac Orthodox friends from Aleppo so I can well understand. Actually it was the abduction of the two Metropolitans, Paul and Gregorios, that was the primary motivation for my conversion a decade ago.