Updated: Opposition Grows to Obama's Planned Attack on Syria

...Bishop Nicholas Ozone, who serves the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, whose patriarchal headquarters is in Damascus, told RIA Novosti on Friday that the international community needs to "sit down together and, through peaceful conversation, agree on a resolution instead of this endless war."

Bishop Richard Pates, head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, has also called on the United States to work for a ceasefire instead of an armed intervention. "The possibility of a diplomatic resolution seems much more appealing than the inevitable havoc and pain and suffering and deaths, especially to innocent civilians that will occur by any military undertaking of the United States," Pates, the bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, told National Catholic Reporter on Friday.

Syria's Christians, who make up an estimated 10 percent of the country's population of 23 million, are anxious about their safety after the Syrian government is overthrown.... Keep reading

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