Syrian Christians for Peace letter to the Orthodox Church calling for an investigation into the case of the theft of the Gold of Cherubim monastery by Rifaat AlAssad
The Cherubim Monastery, the name that means in Aramaic "the angels ", is a universal human heritage and a religious heritage built back to the fifth century AD. This edifice, with a religious-Christian dimension, was intentionally and intentionally looted, as well as many Syrian archaeological sites, in the Assad Family era.
Where the people of the areas surrounding the Cherubim Monastery deliberate that the monastery was a victim of Rifaat Alassad who looted the monastery's properties of gold and antiquities and annexed it to his private properties in the years of the eighties, while it is the property of the Syrians in general and a Syrian Christian heritage that links the people of the region with their history and the succession of civilizations in their lands.
Today, after the start of the trial hearings of Rifaat Alassad , Bashar al-Assad uncle, on charges relating to the issue of "unlawful enrichment" in France.
Syrian Christians for peace ask the Orthodox Church to investigate the charge of stealing the fortunes of the Cherubim Monastery and demanding the return and compensation of the stolen goods that prove to be the public property of the people The Syrian is not a private property of the church and no party has the right to drop the right to claim it or ignore it.
This follow-up is a historic responsibility of the Church towards what was entrusted to him from the property and Christian inheritance. Therefore, members of the Syrian Christians for Peace stress the necessity and importance of this step and invite the Syrians in general and the sons of the Orthodox parish in particular to join this demand and to provide their certificates and documents related to this incident to Relevant human rights organizations publicly restore to our country part of what was stolen, plundered, and systematically destroyed from its history and cultural heritage, which since the Assad family received the rule of the most severe vandalism and mutilation.