On December 11, 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II met with His Excellency Austrian Chancellor Mr. Sebastian Kurz, at the chancellery of Austria.Their Beatitudes Mor Ignatius Joseph III Younan, Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, and Cardinal Mar Louis Rafael I Sako, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, and His Eminence Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, also attended the meeting.
His Excellency welcomed His Holiness and their Beatitudes, and expressed his full support to the persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
They assured that what is needed is to help Christians remain fixed and live with dignity in the land of the forefathers.
His Holiness expressed his worries that the Middle East, which is the cradle of Christianity, is being emptied of Christians according to political agendas. He also showed his disturbance from the international indifference concerning the case of the two abducted Archbishops of Aleppo Mor Gregorius Youhanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji. He also stressed that the priority in Syria and Iraq is for humanitarian resolutions rather than political or military solutions.
Holiness was accompanied by His Eminence Mor Timotheos Matta Al-Khoury, Patriarchal Vicar in the Patriarchal Archdiocese of Damascus.
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