We’ve long said here at Catholicism.org that the meddlesome US foreign policy in the Middle East has been both wrongheaded and disastrous to the Christian religious minorities in the region. Some mistake our criticism for a lack of patriotism.
Below are some brief clips from a longer interview with Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Yonan, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians for the Syriac Catholic Church. His Beatitude confirms what has been for many years our editorial policy on the question, largely inspired by the Lebanese Christian founder of our community, Brother Francis.
