Evangelical leader says US must protect Syrian Christians from attacks by jihadi terrorists

JERUSALEM—The erstwhile al Qaeda violent and current Interim President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, failed to halt a massacre of implicit 1,000 Syrians, including Christians, that unfolded past Thursday and continued implicit a play of days.

Al-Sharaa and his organization, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a U.S.-designated Sunni violent organization, toppled erstwhile Syrian President Bashar Assad successful December.

Christian leaders and quality rights activists person formed beardown doubts connected the capableness of al-Sharra’s Islamist authorities to physique a ideology that tin support susceptible spiritual number groups.

"This is simply a informing that the Syrian authorities is not acceptable for premier clip if it can’t support a fistful of susceptible Christians who had perfectly thing to bash with this unit but being its victims," Rev. Johnnie Moore, the president of The Congress of Christian Leaders, told Fox News Digital.

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Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian authorities thrust successful the backmost of a conveyance moving on a roadworthy successful Syria's occidental metropolis of Latakia connected March 9, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

After shocking online video footage showed Islamists engaging successful massacres of Syrian Alawites—a number spiritual population—al-Sharra claimed helium would "hold accountable, firmly and without leniency, anyone who was progressive successful the bloodshed of civilians". He added, "There volition beryllium nary 1 supra the instrumentality and anyone whose hands person been stained with the humor of Syrians volition look justness sooner oregon later."

Moore said, "It is simply a wide objection that this caller authorities has failed astatine the archetypal task of immoderate government, which is to support its citizens."

New Syrian person Ahmed al-Sharaa seen successful the colony of Besnaya successful Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib state astatine the borderline with Turkey successful 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

He said that overseas fighters acting either astatine the absorption of the Syrian authorities oregon embedded wrong it oregon behaving successful an out-of-control mode "indiscriminately and grotesquely killed countless civilians, including a fig of Christians, that we personally verified were killed. And the numbers are rising."

Moore said, "The caller authorities successful Syria may not beryllium ISIS, but they are ‘Islamists.’" Al-Sharaa was besides erstwhile a subordinate of the Islamist State violent movement.

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Syrian families who fled the clashes successful Syria get to transverse into the bluish colony of Heker al-Daher successful Akkar province, Lebanon, connected Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Moore lambasted the posture of the Europeans toward the hardcore Syrian Islamist authorities by noting the European governments look to beryllium rewarding the authorities successful Damascus.

"And for this to hap wrong 24 hours of the United Kingdom announcing that they are waiving sanctions connected the Syrian nationalist slope and implicit 20 different entities is simply a informing motion to the full Western satellite and the EU committee is continuing with its plans bash a backing league successful the adjacent aboriginal to assistance the caller Syrian government."

Moore continued, "The effect from the U.S. should beryllium the nonstop opposite. The United States should nonstop a very, precise wide connection to the caller Syrian authorities that determination volition beryllium zero sanctions alleviation and determination volition be zero normalization of its attraction to the new Syrian authorities until it proves that it's going to beryllium capable to support each the citizens of Syria, including its susceptible Christians." 

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Christians stitchery to observe Christmas astatine the Monastery of Our Lady of Saydnaya connected Dec. 24, 2024 successful Saydnaya, Syria. (Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)

Moore noted that during the Syrian civilian war, Christians were killed and displaced. In December, the Center for Religious Freedom's Nina Shea and Moore discussed connected Fox and Friends the menace to Christianity successful Syria aft rebels took implicit the superior and the U.S. relation successful protecting Christians.

The Christian colonisation successful Syria has shrunk considerably since the commencement of the 2011 Syrian civilian war. There are an estimated 300,000 Christians successful the war-torn nation. Prior to the Syrian civilian war, the Syrian Christian assemblage numbered 1.5 million.