Russia to Focus Attention on Christians’ Concerns in Mideast, Says Foreign Minister

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (Source: Alexandr Sherbak/TASS)

MOSCOW (TASS)””Russia will increase its efforts in focusing attention on the concerns of Christians in the Middle East, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday at a meeting with the Syrian Orthodox Church’s Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, TASS reports.

“Russia was among the initiators to hold a special event on the sidelines of the human rights council in Geneva this March, which was devoted to the Christians’ distress and beginning of their exodus from the region,”