WCC condemns destruction of monastery in Syria

“The world must support a real peace process in Syria now to stop these tragedies for peoples and cultures,” according to the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit. He said the reports received of the destruction by so-called “Islamic State” of a fifth-century monastery near Homs, Syria, is – “a further expression of Islamic […]