Moscow Patriarchate: acting as "international executioners,"
the US is sacrificing Muslims and Christians in Syria.
Speaking to AsiaNews,
Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Relations of the
Moscow Patriarchate, condemns threats of NATO intervention without a UN
mandate. More victims will be "sacrificed on the altar of an imaginary
democracy".
Moscow (AsiaNews) - As
a Western military intervention against the regime of Bashar al-Assad appears
increasingly likely, the Russian Orthodox Church expresses "strong
concern" about possible developments of the crisis, this following US
charges that the regime used chemical weapons against civilians.
"Once again, as
was the case in Iraq, the United States is acting as an international
executioner", said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the
Department for External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Speaking to AsiaNews,
the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church strongly criticised the US
position, which is "completely one-sided."
"Without the
endorsement of the United Nations, they want to decide the fate of a whole
country of millions of inhabitants."
"Once again,"
Hilarion warned, "thousands of lives will be sacrificed on the altar of an
imaginary democracy;" among them, according to the Metropolitan, there
are, first of all, "Christians, about whose fate no one cares."
They are at "risk
of becoming hostages to the situation and the main victims of radical extremist
forces, who, with the help of the United States, will come to power."
"The international
community," he concluded, "must do everything to avoid that events
develop in this direction." (M.A.)
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