Greece Condemns Damascus Church Bombing, Urges Accountability and Protections for Syria’s Religious and Ethnic Communities

Ambassador (Greece) told a closed meeting of the United Nations Security Council that Greece condemned last week’s suicide bombing at the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus and urged swift accountability and protections for Syria’s religious and ethnic communities. “We were all shocked by the terrorist suicide bombing in the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus, Syria,” the ambassador said.

The ambassador said the Security Council “condemned in the strongest terms this terrorist attack that targeted Christians in the place of worship” and that Greece had expressed “heartfelt condolences to the families affected” and “deep sympathy…