The Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of the Syrian city of Aleppo has fled to Lebanon, as fighting intensified in the city's Christian areas during the past week. The offices of the archbishop, Jean-Clement Jeanbart, have also been ransacked, the Tablet (Catholic) website reports today (August 28, 2012).
A Christian source told the missionary news agency Fides that the archdiocesan offices were ransacked by "unidentified groups who want to start a religious war and drag the Syrian people into a sectarian conflict."
Archbishop Jeanbart later told Vatican Radio that among forces fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were foreign fighters in the country and "organizations to find jihadists."
He added that there were "fundamentalists coming from Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey, and many other countries."
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