“This horror defies human logic. A religion to put weapons in the hands of terrorists blinded by the hatred. And extremely intolerant and fanatical people, fundamentalists of violence and death use religion as a bullet that aims at the heart of freedom, and in particular the religious freedom of others, as a weapon to eliminate all opposing views and every person in the civilized world who has the inalienable right to express it like a knife that slaughters human rights.”
This statement was made to ANA-MPA by the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, Ieronymos, who is expected to contact Metropolitan Emmanuel of France later today in order to express his sorrow for the attempted murder of a Greek Orthodox priest of Greek, who was closing his church where he serves in Lyon, France.