The vanishing Christians of Syria: A crisis the world cannot ignore

The Hill ^ | 7/7/2025 | Richard Ghazal

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Syria is home to the world’s oldest existing Christian communities, which trace their lineage back to Apostolic times. According to Syriac Christian tradition, the Syriac Kingdom of Osroene was the world’s first political entity to declare Christianity as its state religion. King Abgar V — known as Abgar the Black — adopted the Christian faith after being healed from a devastating illness by the disciple Thaddeus in 33 AD.

* On the road to Damascus, the former persecutor of Christians, Saul of Tarsus, was transformed into the Apostle Paul, further rooting Christianity in Syrian soil. *

Syria has played a vital role as a wellspring of Christian thought, culture and civilization. Saint Ephrem the Syriac is renowned as one of the most prolific and consequential poets and theologians of the universal Church. Cities like Maaloula and Qamishli still preserve the Aramaic language of Jesus. Ancient churches and monasteries dot the landscape, bearing silent witness to Syria’s role as a cradle of Christian civilization.

Prior to the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Christians made up approximately 10 percent of Syria’s population and played key roles in academia, medicine, commerce and in public life. They coexisted with their Muslim neighbors to preserve a fragile but buoyant multiethnic, multiconfessional social fabric.

The civil war shattered this pluralistic order. Today, fewer than 300,000 Christians remain in Syria, down from roughly 2 million prior to the war.

For centuries, Christians have served as a moderating force in Syria, exemplifying the “love thy neighbor” ethos, offering Syrian society a model of compassion, coexistence and moral restraint. Their elimination would cause a narrowing of ideas, identities and beliefs, which would enable radical ideologies to reach an otherwise moderate Muslim demographic.

Christianity’s extinction in Syria would also mark the loss of a vital bridge between East and West.

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Syriac Christianity provides unique access into the mind, culture and worldview native to Christ and the Apostles, and thus shaped the theology of the early church and connected the Western tradition with its Semitic roots. Its loss would sever a crucial link in this shared civilizational heritage.

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Thanks for posting this.

Now let’s,see when Kooky QATARlson will care:

32 Christians are killed per day, but the West sees only [Islamic] Gaza.
No one has ever heard of Western flotillas headed to Nigeria, Congo, or Syria, where Christians and Druze are slaughtered like chickens.
Giulio Meotti.
Aug 19, 2025.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413504

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Gee, who didn’t see this coming?

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“Thanks” a lot Erdogan.

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Erdogan is putting the band back together.

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Yes. Islamic empire...

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The EU elites have been pressuring member states to take in more Muslims. Hungary and Poland refused, but took in persecuted Middle Eastern Christians. If they don’t want to got to Europe, Israel can resettle them in Gaza. The world needs to save the Christians from Muslim terror.

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“The vanishing Christians of Syria: A crisis the world cannot ignore”

I wonder if The Hill ran any articles regarding the situation of the Christians in Syria and that only Assad was keeping them from being wiped-out there, BEFORE the US-Funded Islamic Terrorists took over?

I think not, since they have the Neocon mindset, which can be summed up as “Who the hell cares what happens to Christians around the world, as long as we can stick it Putin (or Trump, for that matter)”

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Thank Obama and McCain for supporting, funding, and arming the jihadist rebels in Syria. Even when they were ISIS members and vowed to establish Shariah Law in Syria.

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I wonder if The Hill ran any articles regarding the situation of the Christians in Syria and that only Assad was keeping them from being wiped-out there, BEFORE the US-Funded Islamic Terrorists took over?

Yes. Whoever is the new neocon enemy du jour, they will be the ones being declared to be killing christians.

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As a matter of fact, the Christians in Syria were supporting Assad.
Not because they liked him, but because he seemed to be the lesser evil compared to the Islamists.

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Amen.

Lord we see the oppression and martyrdom of our People in Syria. if it’s Your Will, we ask that they be spared and You glorified in the doing. help, guide, and strengthen them as they stand in Your Name. grant us avenues besides prayer for their support. but we accept and acknowledge that You elect to do with Your Body what is good in Your sight. in Your Holy Name we ask for them. Amen.

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Oh, but we Christians know whom we must protect. That is how stupid Christians have become.

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Thanks for that thoughtful prayer.