“Two Syrian archbishops have expressed approval of the Russian strikes against rebel forces in their country,” announced American agency Catholic News Service(CNS) on October 9, 2015. Indeed, Bishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart, Catholic Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo, told Television Suisse Romande on his way through Geneva on October 8th, that the intervention of Russia in the Syrian civil war “gives hope” to the Christians of Syria amongst whom he has observed “renewed confidence.” MORE