Church leaders have ‘positive meeting’ with new Syrian regime leaders
December 11, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Christian leaders in Aleppo met with leaders of the newly installed Syrian government on December 9, and Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo reported that the country’s new leaders evidently wanted to “build trust by respecting our traditions and our prayers.”
Despite concerns raised by the Islamic ideology of the new leadership, Bishop Audo said that they appeared “very interested” in his argument that Christians should not be treated as second-class citizens.
Bishop Audo said that the sudden fall of the Assad regime was the result of “an agreed international decision to secure a way out” after years of civil war. He said that Russia, which had backed Assad, was a party to this agreement: “Russia asked Assad to leave the country,” he said.
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