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Why is there a blackout in the media when it comes to the massacre of thousands of Christians? The exclusion of mainstream media coverage of an ongoing massacre in Syria is shocking in an era that meticulously scrutinizes human rights violations.

Since December 2024, when the al-Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized control of Damascus with Turkish support, a wave of targeted killings has engulfed Christian and Alawite communities.

Have you heard the reports that claim over 7,000 Christians and Alawites have been slaughtered, their homes burned, and their properties looted? Why not? It’s not your fault; why haven’t the media been reporting this holocaust of Christians?

Why indeed!

Despite the scale and brutality of these atrocities, the silence from global institutions and major news networks is deafening. The lack of condemnation from Western powers raises troubling questions about their selective approach to human rights and justice. Where is the outcry from the civil rights advocates?

Why is this crisis being ignored? The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, John X, has been one of the few voices courageously speaking out.

During a sermon on March 9th, he described the horrors faced by Christians and Alawites: “The bloody events taking place on the Syrian coast left many dead and wounded. … In many cities, towns, and villages, their houses were burnt, and their properties have been stolen. The targeted areas were the places of Alawites and Christians.”

The massacres are not isolated incidents. Social media is flooded with graphic videos and images of Christian men, women, and children being shot execution-style. In the Christian-majority “Valley of the Christians,” community leaders and innocent civilians have been found murdered, some hacked to death with machetes, others executed being kidnapped and tortured to death.

A Levantine Christian source told European Conservative, “Right now, the Alawites and Christians in Syria are deathly afraid of speaking to the press.”

Here is an honest question: Where is the United Nations? Why is the UN silent? The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The massacres of Christians and Alawites in Syria fit this definition perfectly, but are Christians expendable and not worthy of reporting or putting forth an effort to stop the slaughter?

Despite the clear evidence, Western governments continue to recognize and even financially support Syria’s new jihadist rulers. In January 2025, the European Union pledged a €235 million "humanitarian assistance package" to the new Syrian government. These funds, instead of providing relief to the victims, have effectively bolstered a regime that harbors al-Qaeda and former ISIS operatives.

In other words, the European Union is funding the mass genocide of Christians, the very nations that have been the backbone of Christianity for centuries.

What have you read in the media? SpaceX saves astronauts, President Trump writes more executive orders, and Putin and Ukraine are in the Trump peace talks, but not a word about the vast slaughter of helpless Christians as that tragedy grows. Soon the martyr death count will be in the tens of thousands, and if not stopped, the purge will be in the hundreds of thousands.

The hypocrisy of Western foreign policy is glaring. Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the HTS regime, has a long and bloody history with terrorist organizations. He previously led Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, and was even designated a terrorist by the U.S. State Department in 2013.

Despite this, European diplomats have shaken his hand and pledged financial aid to his regime while ignoring the mass slaughter of Christians and Alawites.

Greek MEP Nikolas Farantouris recently visited Damascus and confirmed the scale of the massacres. Following his visit, he made an urgent plea to European leaders: “Reliable data indicate 7,000 massacres of Christians and Alawites and unprecedented atrocities against civilians. Christian and other communities with a presence in these parts for over a thousand years are at risk of extinction.”

Former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras also condemned the neo-Ottoman-inspired massacres, calling out Europe’s hypocrisy in supporting an Islamist regime that allows the slaughter of religious minorities.

“The EU and the West ought to know that when you substitute evil with evil, then you inevitably lead to massacres of thousands of civilians and scenes of barbarism that humanity cannot bear in the 21st century.”

Where is the outrage? Why is the Vatican strangely silent? These martyrs are not just Protestants, but also Catholics, Orthodox, and all brands of those people who profess a belief in Jesus.

The silence of the media and international institutions is not just complicity—it is an endorsement of genocide. Christians, Alawites, and other minorities in Syria are facing extinction, yet the West continues to turn a blind eye.

Final Word: At the end of the day, most of the world is still trying to kill Jesus, and they keep failing.   What did Jesus ever do to them?