Has the official abandonment of Eastern Christians begun?
The Vatican is not merely a political institution seeking balance
It is the last spiritual reference point for hundreds of millions of Christians, especially for Eastern Christians who have experienced murder, displacement, and fear under the banners of Islamic extremism.
Therefore, simply considering receiving Ahmed al-Sharaa cannot be considered a “diplomatic detail.?
Here, we are not talking about a traditional politician emerging from a civil democratic project, but a man who rose from the heart of the armed jihadist environment, whose name has been linked for years to sectarian violence, radical Islamic discourse, and the massacres that have torn Syria apart and terrorized minorities.
Political language may change.
Clothes and speeches may change.
But the memory of peoples does not fade so easily.
The Druze, Christians, and Alawites in Syria do not see the situation as a “promising transitional phase,” but as a recycling of an ideological project that still carries at its core the same mental structure that led the region to catastrophe.
And, while areas of Syria still live with the aftermath of massacres, sectarian violations, and existential fear, the West-and with it some circles within the Vatican-is moving to rehabilitate this model politically and internationally, under titles such as “stability” and “political realism.”
But this is where the most dangerous crisis begins.
Because the Vatican does not have the luxury of acting like a Western capital solely pursuing its own interests.
The Church’s role is not to manage geopolitical agreements, but to protect ethical truth and defend the oppressed, especially the Christians who are still paying the price for the collapse of the Middle East.
Any image that brings together the Pope and Ahmed al-Sharaa before a real accounting, clear guarantees for the protection of minorities and the building of an effective civil state, will not be read in the East as a peace initiative…
but as a message of abandonment.
A message that says to the Christians of Syria, Lebanon and Iraq:
“The world is ready to live with the slopes of jihadist Islam if only the political language changes.”
And this is where the real catastrophe lies.#Y#
Because Eastern Christians no longer fear only extremist groups, but a growing feeling that the world-and even the Church-is willing to sacrifice them in exchange for illusions of stability.
And the most dangerous thing is that this is happening at a time that is already witnessing, in itself, a crisis of confidence within the Catholic Church itself.
Because many conservative Christians now see that the Vatican, in recent years, has leaned toward a global left-wing political discourse that focuses more on plurality, openness, and migration than on protecting Christian identity and defending persecuted Christians.
Therefore, any rapprochement with a figure from the jihadist environment will be seen not as “dialogue,” but as part of a broader ethical collapse within the institution that was supposed to be the last spiritual bastion of Christians.
Dialogue does not mean whitewashing the past.
And peace does not mean granting legitimacy to those who have not yet proven that they have truly abandoned the mental framework that manufactured the tragedy.
History will not remember the soft language of the communiqués.
But it will remember who stood with the victims…
and who chose to shake hands with those who terrorized them.
Published in 05/10/2026 11h23
Text adapted by AI (Grok) and translated via Google API in the English version. Images from public image libraries or credits in the caption.
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