ASIA/SYRIA - The Heads of the Christian communities in Aleppo: is it the time of the Resurrection of the Savior or the funeral of his disciples?

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "During the Easter period, our city and our people suffered intense pain, anguish and discomfort during the night when neighborhoods in the city were hit with rocket-propelled grenades, with a destructive capacity that we had never heard and seen before". This is how the statement issued by the Heads of Churches and Christian communities of Aleppo begins, after fierce bombing hit in particular the neighborhoods where Christians are concentrated, in the days in which Easter was being celebrated in Syria according to the Julian Calendar .
"We went - write the leaders of the Council of Christian denominations in the matyred city in the text sent to Agenzia Fides - we saw and we cried: bodies pulled out from the rubble, shreds attached to the walls and blood mixed with the soil of homeland! Dozens of martyrs of every religion and confession, wounded and maimed, men and women, the elderly and children. We listened to the cries of the widows and the laments of the children and we saw the panic on the faces of the people".
The Heads of Churches and ecclesial communities turn to "people of conscience, in case there is anyone willing to listen" to implore the end of destruction and massacres: "Stop – says the statement - being a laboratory for experimenting weapons of a devastating war! We are tired! Close the doors of the sale of arms and stop the instruments of death and the supply of ammunition. We are tired!".
The Christian Leaders of Aleppo complain that the once most cosmopolitan metropolis of Syria has been transformed into a martyred city: "We want the 'Aleppo al Shahbah' to remain, a witness of tenderness, love and peace, of forgiveness and dialogue. Aleppo the city, the precious jewel on the crown of our Country, Syria, with all its components and its cultural, religious and sectarian diversity". (GV) (Agenzia Fides 15/04/2015)


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