World leaders need to realise the gravity of the crisis Christians are facing in Syria, and so Barnabas Fund have produced a sample letter* to politicians which Christians in the UK are being encouraged to use to contact their MPs, it was reported in October.
The deliberate targeting of Christians by Islamist rebels within the opposition is an ‘angle’ that the Western media has largely ignored, while Western political leaders, especially from the US, UK and France, are actually backing the side that is intent on destroying the Syrian church.
Courage to change
The difficulty for both the media and political leaders is that they ‘bought’ a particular line on the Syrian uprising that has turned out to be false, and they need to be persuaded to have the courage to change.
