Posted on 11/21/2015 10:21:53 PM PST by WilliamIII
As president of a country whose Christian population is quickly vanishing, Syria's Bashar al-Assad has said he sees Vladimir Putin as the only world leader defending Christianity.
"When I look at the present state of things in the world I realize that Vladimir Putin is the sole defender of Christian civilization one can rely on," declared Assad during an interview with the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles earlier this week.
According to World Vision, since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, more than 240,000 people have lost their lives, many of them children. Much of the repression and the slaughter of civilians has been perpetuated by Assad and his Syrian Army and secret police during their brutal crackdown on dissent.
Christians, who have been caught in the crossfire of the Arab Spring and civil war, have found a measure of protection under Assad's dictatorship.
In October, the Catholic Herald reported on comments from one of Syria's leading Christians who said Putin's intervention, while possibly motivated by selfish reasons, is helping and giving hope to Christians.
Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart of Aleppo said Putin's actions are giving Christians "a renewal of confidence" while helping to solve the problem of Christian genocide.
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very sad William.
We ARE living under a traitorous regime that is capable of ANYTHING the next 13 months.
What’s worse, only 54 percent disapprove of his terror strategy. Definitely enough to win the election in 2016, but it should be 80 percent, or higher.
Russia is the only country that can stop ISIS and stop obama’s plans in the Middle East.
And obama lied. It is a proxy war. sending 19000 bombs, i think, to Saudi Arabia which will go straight to Syria.
Saying he doesn’t care about America leading.
good Lord
We cannot expect Obama to defend any Christians, especially if it means killing Muslims.
Obama is definitely unfit for the job of leading a Judeo-Christian nation.
Kinda true. The EU is hostile. Its basically illegal in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. The USA now has a full on anti Christian revolutionary fascist government. As far as I know, only Putin has don’t the opposite.
Some will arrive with prepackaged spam posts explaining how its all a Putin plot to pretend he is Christian.
Hell, at least he cares enough to pretend!
Things are weird out there.
Come on. Obama’s just too busy taking care of moslems to manage it.
I don’t regard Putin as a savior in any way. He is doing what he is doing for selfish reasons. But he maybe the only person that has the guts to make an attempt to take out ISOS. There is no PC in Russia.
I don’t regard Assad as a good guy. But he is most likely better that the alternative.
Given that thought...I want them both to win.
very said but true nonetheless
USA role in this is a tremendous embarassment, to say the least
the traitors are not only ruining America, they are screwing over a number of foreign countries .. that didn’t ask to be bombed or subverted
I think your post nails it. A sad truth, but still true.
We know that. I didn’t know that about Europe, but we in the US know Obama will never protect a Christian or Jews. But he will bend over backwards to protect Muslims
Yes, only 54% disapprove but it appears that many more simply do not care because they’re plugged into the matrix where they consume mindless entertainment, social networking, “free” things, etc., (the modern equivalent of bread and circuses).
it’s close to becoming Rome and we have our Nero.
The invaders aren’t Germanic this time though.
And they didn’t come swinging axes.
They were welcomed with open arms, and the terrorists that got through too, well, what can you do?
If my better half even gets a scratch on her in Manhattan because of the idiot mayor, governor and president, I will be an angry man.
What happened man? This was America. Reagan was president, jobs were there for the picking. the deficit was what, a trillion. The women were young and good looking and so was I.
We brought down communism.
Now. Gay marriage? Caitlyn “what should I wear?” Jenner?
Abortion and gay marriage are enforced by the feds but the states can deny you the 2nd amendment right?
We elected an infiltrator muslim loving traitor with the middle name Hussein, while we were fighting muslims. Twice he was elected!! An Iranian traitor is pulling his strings.
What happened?
I’m finishing this last beer and going to bed. Goodnight folks.
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/88002.htm
In August 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a bold announcement, in which he suggested rebuilding both the Chudov Monastery and Voznesensky (Ascension) Convent.
The long awaited demolition of the Kremlin Presidium or “Building 14” began this week. The building was constructed in the 1930s, and up until 2011 the Soviet era building formerly housed the offices of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the highest legislative body of the Soviet Union.
The Presidium stands on the site of the destroyed Chudov and Voznesensky monasteries and the Lesser Nicholas Palace. The two monasteres were among the historic buildings within the grounds of the Kremlin ordered to be destroyed by Joseph Stalin as part of the state atheism campaign, which resulted razing of religious structures from all over Russia.
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