The Vatican News portal (“News from the Orient – January 9, 2026”) reports renewed violence in Aleppo between Syrian government forces and Kurdish militants, noting nine deaths and attacks on Christian sites including the Mar Elias Church (25 dead in June) and a prevented suicide bombing at Bab al-Faraj Greek Orthodox Church on December 31. The article frames Syria’s instability as a post-Assad “unity challenge” while omitting the religious nature of persecution against Christians.
Naturalistic Reduction of Religious Persecution
The report reduces the systematic extermination of Syria’s Christian remnant to mere political conflict, stating generically that “violence struck Aleppo” rather than identifying the Islamic supremacist ideology motivating these attacks. This follows the conciliar sect’s pattern of avoiding any mention of odium fidei (hatred of the faith) as the root cause, despite Pius XI’s condemnation: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas, §18). The silence on Islam’s theological imperative to subjugate non-Muslims constitutes gross negligence, violating the Church’s perennial teaching that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Council of Florence, Cantate Domino).
Abandonment of the Church’s Missionary Mandate
Nowhere does the article call for the conversion of Muslim persecutors—a stunning omission given that the attacked churches belong to Eastern Catholic communities in full communion with Rome. This reflects the neo-church’s betrayal of Christ’s command to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19), replaced with a UN-style discourse of “negotiations” and “integration.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1350) mandated missionary activity as essential to the Church’s identity, whereas the conciliar sect practices the heresy of religious indifferentism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 16).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
The report’s focus on earthly “unity challenges” ignores the only solution to Syria’s crisis: the social reign of Christ the King. Pius XI definitively taught that nations rejecting Christ’s authority become “shaken to their foundations” (Quas Primas, §1). By treating Syria as just another geopolitical puzzle rather than a territory needing evangelization and consecration to the Sacred Heart, the neo-church denies the Kingship of Christ over societies—a dogma reiterated in Leo XIII’s Annum Sacrum and Pius XI’s institution of the Feast of Christ the King.
False Ecumenism With Persecutors
The article’s sterile description of “Kurdish forces” (predominantly Sunni Muslim) versus “government forces” deliberately obscures the religious dimension of Kurdish jihadism against Christians. This follows the conciliar playbook of equating persecutors and persecuted, implementing Vatican II’s heretical claim that Muslims “adore the one God” (Nostra Aetate §3)—a doctrine condemned by St. Pius X as “the passion for innovation and the unrestrained desire for novelty” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §39). True Catholic missions, like those of the French Capuchins martyred in Aleppo in 1700, never concealed Islam’s inherently anti-Christian character.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This reporting exemplifies how the neo-church has abandoned Syrian Christians spiritually while exploiting their suffering for humanitarian PR. No mention is made of the Most Holy Sacrifice being offered in besieged Aleppo parishes, nor of the need for penance and prayer to counter Islamic aggression. Contrast this with Pope Benedict XIV’s 1751 document Allatae Sunt, which organized global prayer campaigns for persecuted Eastern Catholics. Today’s conciliar bureaucrats instead promote the “great mission” of dialogue—a modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X as “the synthesis of all heresies” (Lamentabili Sane, Introduction).
Source:
News from the Orient – January 9, 2026 (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.01.2026