This is the translation from french into English…

This is the translation from french into English, posted earlier, concerning the article about the French tranditionalist priest who has given false information about the Christians in Homs

Translation

A French priest posing as a bishop has given false information to the agency Fides Catholic missionary, on alleged persecution against Christians in Homs A certain Philip Tournyol du Clos, French traditionalist priest, allegedly linked to the extreme right, and presenting himself as “Archimandrite of the Greek Melkite Catholic”, described recently to the Vatican agency Fides a dramatic situation of Christians in the city of Homs.

He told of churches destroyed and occupied by the rebels, killed a priest, a massive flight of Christians under the threats of the Islamists. The problem is that there was no bishop and would never have been there, according to the magazine “Christians of the Mediterranean” and the blog specializing in the Arab world “Il Mondo di Anibal” who reported the case handling of the plan?

The Vatican has distanced itself from such false information at the Annual Meeting of the relief work to the Eastern Churches (ROACO) held in Rome last week.

These false reports could be a manipulation of President Bashar AL Assad secular regime to accredit the thesis of a terrorist attack, by armed Islamists, against the Syrian people, and particularly against the Christian minority, which is mostly to side of the regime for fear of the future. Warning According to “Il Mondo di Anibal,” “remains to be understood as an agency Fides, expression of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was able to fall” into such a trap.

The announcement of Damascus, Archbishop Mario Zenari, warned on June 13 against some alarmist information given by the media on the persecution of the Christian minority is the victim. Christians are indeed in trouble in Homs and elsewhere, but as the whole population. No “special discrimination” “Until today, stressed the nonce, I would not say that there is discrimination against them in particular, much less persecution. It is important to be alert and see the facts as truth, “he had insisted. In Syria muliticonfessionalism, where Christianity was established for two thousand years, 7.5% of the estimated 20 million people are Christians. The Alawites in power have forged relationships with them. Christians fear a scenario in Iraq where they are threatened by the Islamists came to power. (Afp)