CWN - The head of the Syriac Catholic Church decried the United States’ foreign policy toward Syria.
“Regarding the American administration vis-à-vis the situation in Syria since the beginning, it was wrong in its approach to that situation in Syria," said Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Yonan.
“Since the beginning, they wanted to just change the government because they were telling people, the media, that this guy, Bashar al-Assad, was a dictator, so he has to go to liberate the people of the country and to bring democracy,” he continued. “This ... was a wrong reading of the situation. You can’t export Western democracy into countries where you don’t have separation of Church and state, where you have what we call the hegemony of religion.”
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