Clarence House @ClarenceHouse 2h2 hours ago
QuoteHRH visited the Syrian Orthodox Church in Acton today, meeting congregation members who have faced persecution
Rebecca English @RE_DailyMail
QuotePrince Charles describes the murder of 132 children yesterday in Peshawar by fanatics claiming to act in the name of Islam was 'sickening'.
Prince Charles: I have been deeply distressed by the horrific scenes of violence and bestial brutality coming out of the Middle East.
Charles: I can only commend those members of the Media, some of whom I know are here today.....
Charles contd: .....for helping to ensure that the world is not allowed to forget the stark horror of what is happening in Iraq and Syria.
Charles: In this Advent season.....it is the more profoundly heart-breaking that so many Christians are being persecuted for their faith.
Charles: [but] you must not forget that Muslims in Iraq and Syria have been victims of appalling persecution as well as Christians & Yazidis
Charles: I can only leave you with my prayers and blessings, however inadequate they may be, together with these words of St. Paul's....
Charles:We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed...persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed (St Paul's) #Peshawar
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The heir to the thone spoke out a day after the gun attack on the children and their teachers at the Army Public School in Peshawar, as he visited the London cathedral of a community of Middle Eastern Christians.
At a special service in his honour, Charles, 66, told the congregation of the Syriac Orthodox Church in East Acton, west London, that killing in the name of religion was a desecration.
Some of the worshippers have fled persecution in their homelands but in recent months the spread of Islamic State fighters has brought further misery as their relatives back home in Iraq or Syria have been forced to flee for their lives.
^^^Glad to see Charles making this visit to one of the persecuted Christian denominations.