Patriarch of Antioch and all the East and Supreme Leader of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church, Ignatius Aphrem II, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Patriarch John X issued on Friday a joint Easter message asserting that the "children of the cross" will never be uprooted from their land in the Levant, regardless of the conspiracies woven against them. 
"We want to live in peace and harmony in the Levant," read the message, "we do not need lamentation and condemnation, in as much as we need serious and sincere will from all keen parties to spread peace over our land."
The Patriarchs asserted that their message was a call to end terrorism and takfirism, and a call for those who fund them to stop. 
"On this Easter, which means the pass-over, we pray to the God of the angels to grant peace to our land and the entire world." 

Source: NNA