Lamenting
indifference to the worldwide persecution of Christians, the Russian Orthodox
Church’s chief ecumenical officer said that the Western invasion of Iraq
brought suffering to numerous Christians.
“It
is today when all states have undertaken obligations to protect human rights,
outflow of Christians from certain countries has increased,” said Metropolitan
Hilarion. “I believe it proves the failure of modern world policy on religious
freedom and lack of interest to religious education.”
“According
to some data, half of 1,4 million Christian population has left [Iraq] since
2003,” he continued. “Without giving any evaluations to political situation in
Iraq before NATO interference, I'd like to mention that Christians there were
not physically exterminated. Foreign military invasion has made many Christians
hostages of insufficiently considered NATO actions.”
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