Syrian church leader Gregory III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic patriarch of Antioch, has expressed grave concern over the founding of a new Islamic Front in Syria.
The merging of seven leading Islamist rebel groups was announced on 22 November. Their logic, he said “has nothing to do with democracy and freedom”.
The new Front aims to topple the secular Government headed by President Bashar al-Assad and to replace it with an Islamic state.
In a statement published on Facebook the group said: "This independent political, military and social formation aims to topple the Assad regime completely and build an Islamic state where the sovereignty of God almighty alone will be our reference and ruler."
The patriarch has estimated that more than 450,000 Syrian Christians have fled the country since 2011.
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