{"id":30649,"date":"2018-09-04T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=30649"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:29:15","slug":"syria-kurds-close-several-christian-schools-marta-petrosillo-acn-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/09\/04\/syria-kurds-close-several-christian-schools-marta-petrosillo-acn-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: Kurds close several Christian schools &#8211; Marta Petrosillo \u2013 ACN Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SYRIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Kurds close several Christian schools<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cThe plan to oust Christians from the region is being executed\u201d- Archbishop Hindo<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFor years I have been saying that the Kurds are trying to eliminate the Christian presence in this part of Syria,\u201d the Syriac Catholic Archbishop Jacques Behnam Hindo of Hasakah-Nisibis, which is located in the northeastern part of Syria, explained. In an interview with the pontifical foundation, he confirmed the closure of several Christian schools through the Democratic Federation of North Syria, a de facto autonomous region located in northern and northeastern Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The region is not officially recognised by the Syrian government and is governed by a coalition in which the \u201cDemocratic Union\u201d, a Kurdish political party, holds the majority. \u201cSince the beginning of the year, the local government has already taken possession of about one hundred state-run schools and introduced their own curriculum and textbooks. The Kurdish officials had assured us that they would not even look at the private schools, but they not only looked at them, they closed them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The official reason given for the closure of several Christian schools in the cities of Qamishli, Al-Darbasiyah and-Malikiyah was that these institutions had refused to conform to the curriculum introduced by the local authorities. \u201cThey do not want us to instruct pupils in the liturgical language, Syriac, and they do not want us to teach history because they prefer to drum their own history into the heads of pupils.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Archbishop Hindo did not withhold his concerns about the likely closure of further Christian schools \u2013 there are six more in Al Hasakahalone \u2013as well as about the extensive damage that the \u201cKurdish\u201d curriculum, which differs from the official Syrian curriculum, might do to pupils. \u201cI told a Kurdish official that this was penalising an entire generation because they will not have any access to higher levels of education. He answered me that they were even prepared to sacrifice six or seven generations to disseminate their ideology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What has happened is evidence of the planned \u201cKurdification\u201d of the region. According to Archbishop Hino, this also includes the elimination of the local Christian presence. \u201cWe have been warning against this danger since at least 2015. They want to oust us Christians to strengthen their own presence. To date, Kurds make up only 20 per cent of the population, but, thanks to the Western support, are disproportionately represented in the local government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Through <strong><em>Aid to the Church in Need<\/em><\/strong>, the archbishop has directed an appeal to the international community and particularly to European states. \u201cThe closure of our schools is painful to us. The church has been in charge of these institutions since 1932 and we never thought that they would ever be closed. The West cannot keep silent. If you are truly Christian, you are obligated to bring everything that is happening out into the open and prevent further violations of our rights and further threats to our presence in this region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Marta Petrosillo \u2013 ACN Italy<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYRIA Kurds close several Christian schools &nbsp; \u201cThe plan to oust Christians from the region is being executed\u201d- Archbishop Hindo &nbsp; \u201cFor years I have been saying that the Kurds are trying to eliminate the Christian presence in this part of Syria,\u201d the Syriac Catholic Archbishop Jacques Behnam Hindo of Hasakah-Nisibis, which is located in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30649","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>SYRIA: Kurds close several Christian schools - Marta Petrosillo \u2013 ACN Italy - 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\/2018\/09\/04\/syria-kurds-close-several-christian-schools-marta-petrosillo-acn-italy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SYRIA: Kurds close several Christian schools - Marta Petrosillo \u2013 ACN Italy - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SYRIA Kurds close several Christian schools &nbsp; 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