Syria: Archbishop Welby’s speech in the House of Lords

Posted on August 30, 2013 
Filed under Opinion

Archbishop Welby. Photo: Archbishop of Canterbury's website“We have heard already about Lebanon and about Iran, particularly the effect that an intervention would cause on the new Government in Iran as they are humiliated by such an intervention.

However, there is a further point. I talked to a very senior Christian leader in the region yesterday and he said that intervention from abroad will declare open season on the Christian communities. They have already been devastated. There were 2 million Christians in Iraq 12 years ago; there are fewer than 500,000 today.”

– Read it here.