Prince Charles visited an Armenian church in London where he spoke of his heartbreak at the ‘soul destroying tragedy’ facing Christians in the Middle East, the Daily Mail reported.
Prince Charles talked to the representatives of the local Armenian community, Bishop Vaham Hovhannosyan as well as Armenia’s Ambassador Armen Sargsyan at the St Yeghiche Armenian Church in South Kensington, London today.
In his speech, Prince Charles said Christianity is being ‘quite literally, grotesquely and barbarously assaulted’, in particular in Syria. He emphasized that the Armenian Christians live in peace with their neighbors.
“’It is heartbreaking to learn of the attacks on Christians and on Churches where they gather, such as the Church in Deir el Zour (Syria) earlier this year”, he said.
During the service, Avak Asadourian, the Archbishop of Iraq, spoke of the problems facing Armenian Christians in the region from his own experiences.
‘Due to assaults Iraqi Christians are leaving the country of their forefathers. In 1980 there were 1.5 million, this is now down to 400,000 due to the encroachment of Isis,’ the Daily Mail quotes Archbishop.