M. Harakopoulos for attack in Jordan: The aim is to terrorize and expel Christians from the Middle Easttranslated

The Secretary General of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (DSO), Member of the Parliament of the Hellenes, Dr. Maximos Charakopoulos, made the following statement regarding the terrorist attack against the Christians in the Church of Saint George in the village of Hammoud, Karak province, Jordan: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the new heinous crime committed against Christians in the long-suffering Middle East. The terrorist attack on the Orthodox Church of St. George, in the village of Hammoud, Jordan, during a funeral ceremony, reveals the treacherous intentions of the heinous killers. Spreading death indiscriminately, they aim to terrorize Christians and expel them from their historical homes.

A similar practice that has long been followed in other countries of the wider region, resulting in the dramatic shrinking of the Christian population in the cradle of Christianity itself.

As the ILO, in these dramatic moments, we can only stand by the friendly Jordanian people, a country that has proven in practice that it respects freedom of religion as well as the Christian tradition. Jordan, undoubtedly,…