Look at some salient points from the following report about what the Assad regime is doing to Syrian Christians.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2884/ ... christiansSyrian dictator Bashar Assad's security forces last week killed Husam al Murra, a Syrian Christian who had joined the Syrian Free Army, which is fighting to topple the regime in Damascus.
In recent weeks, several other Christian men have been shot and killed in different parts of the country. One of the victims was a priest from the city of Hama, who was killed while trying to provide humanitarian and medical aid to people injured by Syrian army gunfire.
According to a Christian lawyer in Damascus, Assad's security forces have also begun targeting churches, monasteries and schools under the pretext that they were being used as hideouts for "armed gangs."
An Italian priest who had been living in Syria for the past two decades was asked to leave the country after he voiced public support for the Syrian people's struggle for reform and democracy.
Mmmm. Are you really sure that Assad is such a jolly nice fellow after all? Can Putin really have become the devout Orthodox Christian he claims to have done if he is supporting a leader who oppresses Orthodox Christians in his own country?