PICS - One million people on streets of Damascus backing Assad http://www.voltairenet.org/One-million-people-on-streets-of

Responding to a call on the Facebook page ’My homeland, Syria’, over a million people rallied on 12 October 2011 in the 7 Fountains Square in downtown Damascus and in surrounding streets.Participants gathered to express their support to President Bashar al-Assad in the face of the foreign aggression against their country.

The Christians of the Orient stand up against the new Western colonialism http://www.voltairenet.org/The-Christians-of-the-Orient-stand

The war against Syria, planned by the United States, France and the United Kingdom for mid-November 2011, has been blocked in extremis by the Russian and Chinese vetoes at the Security Council. According to Nicolas Sarkozy, who informed the Maronite Patriarch of the matter during a stormy meeting at the Elysée Palace on 5 September 2011, the plan contemplates the expulsion of Middle East Christians by the Western powers.

In this context a press campaign is underway in Europe to accuse the Christians of the Orient of collusion with the dictatorships. Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross, mother superior of the monastery of James the Mutilated in Qara (Syria) responds to this war propaganda.