{"id":26281,"date":"2017-12-12T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T10:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=26281"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:38:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T10:38:51","slug":"please-voice-policymakers-media-appeal-patriarch-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/12\/12\/please-voice-policymakers-media-appeal-patriarch-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlease be our voice to your policymakers and media!\u201d &#8211; appeal from Patriarch &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cPlease be our voice to your policymakers and media!\u201d &#8211; appeal from Patriarch Younan III<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His Beatitude Ignatius Younan III, Patriarch of the Syriac Catholics worldwide, addressed a group of 30 representatives of European NGOs gathered to hear about the situation of Christians in Syria and Iraq after the departure of Daesh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Having closely followed the EU policy toward Syria, he expressed hope to soon see an end to the sanctions causing such suffering to the Syrian citizens who at the moment completely depend on Catholic charitable organizations for their every need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> In the meeting co-hosted by Aid to the Church in Need and the Commission of European Bishops\u2019 Conferences (COMECE), Patriarch Younan asked the participants, all witnesses to close to six years of war in Syria, to help his people \u201cto be free of the three \u201cPs\u201d: paternalism, pandering and profiteering\u201d as he believes Syriac Catholics have been victimized for a long time by external forces. \u201cWe have been a loyal community serving the country where we were born, fully endowed citizens. We are the indigenous population\u201d, said His Beatitude, \u201cbut because we do not have our own militias or territorial ambitions everyone thinks we agree with everything or we are easy to overrun. For us, it is a matter of survival.\u00a0 If it was not for the Church organizations such as Aid to the Church in Need we would be about to disappear\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Patriarch Younan was accompanied by Archbishop Antoine Chahda of Aleppo, who described the situation in the city these days. \u201cNo more missiles, and it is quiet, but that does not mean the war is over. I mean that the signs of the destruction of the entire life of Aleppo are visible and painful, such as the empty factories where the rebels and their supporters stole all the machinery. We need the industrial leaders to come back and produce, to give a solid base to the reconstruction\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Both Church leaders insisted for an end to the economic sanctions and asked the help of the NGOs present to remind the EU authorities that the high-level politicians do not suffer the consequences, but the thousands of orphans and widows that this war has left do.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlease be our voice to your policymakers and media!\u201d &#8211; appeal from Patriarch Younan III &nbsp; His Beatitude Ignatius Younan III, Patriarch of the Syriac Catholics worldwide, addressed a group of 30 representatives of European NGOs gathered to hear about the situation of Christians in Syria and Iraq after the departure of Daesh.\u00a0\u00a0 Having closely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cPlease be our voice to your policymakers and media!\u201d - appeal from Patriarch - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/12\/12\/please-voice-policymakers-media-appeal-patriarch-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cPlease be our voice to your policymakers and media!\u201d - appeal from Patriarch - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cPlease be our voice to your policymakers and media!\u201d &#8211; 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