Posted on 10/14/2015 1:44:50 PM PDT by marvel5
The Orthodox Christian Church, which is reclaiming its traditional role in post-Soviet Russia, has just described its government’s fight against the Islamic State and other jihadi groups in Syria as a “holy war.”
According to Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Church’s Public Affairs Department,
The fight with terrorism is a holy battle and today our country is perhaps the most active force in the world fighting it. The Russian Federation has made a responsible decision on the use of armed forces to defend the People of Syria from the sorrows caused by the arbitrariness of terrorists. Christians are suffering in the region with the kidnapping of clerics and the destruction of churches. Muslims are suffering no less.
This is not a pretext to justify intervention in Syria. For years, Russia’s Orthodox leaders have been voicing their concern for persecuted Christians. Back in February 2012, the Russian church described to Vladimir Putin the horrific treatment Christians are experiencing around the world, especially under Islam:
The head of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Illarion, said that every five minutes one Christian was dying for his or her faith in some part of the world, specifying that he was talking about such countries as Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan and India. The cleric asked Putin to make the protection of Christians one of the foreign policy directions in future.
“This is how it will be, have no doubt,” Putin answered.
(Excerpt) Read more at russia-insider.com ...
GO RUSSIA !
Finally! Somebody had to say it!....................
We have been lied to for a long time...
Watch and see...
Next target? Caliph Baraq?
Crusades II.
It will get really serious when they start calling it the new crusade.
It’s like the 11th century all over again..................
What, exactly, is a neo-con and what distinguishes a neo-con from a conservative?
“The fight with terrorism is a holy battle and today our country is perhaps the most active force in the world fighting it.”
Tremendous!
The Western Catholic Church has much to re-learn (it used to have the guts to confront evil).
Russia is showing us up on the battlefield and in exercising the Faith.
WOOHOO Russia...take that Caliphate right out of bath house barry’s hands!!!!
I wonder if they would ship some of their testosterone to the white hut.
America is off the world stage. Surreal and unreal.
Hussein has sabotaged America's superpower status.
Putin has done more to protect Christians than 0 ever will.
Neo-cons tend to be foreign policy hawks first and foremost with little interest in social issues.
Go Russian Christians!!
>>It will get really serious when they start calling it the new crusade.
We can only hope!
Someone recognizes it’s WW IV.
Jewishness.
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