The dangerous fake news about a ‘Christian genocide’ in Syria
Published March 18, 2025
“We must assume that everything that’s in the news, or even on social media, will be seen by governments and other armed groups. And that can have terrible repercussions on the Christian population”, says an Open Doors representative in the Middle East.Internet reports of a recent Christian slaughter in Syria are “misled” and could have negative consequences for Christians in Syria, according to a spokesperson for Open Doors.
Matthew Barnes, communications officer for Open Doors in the Middle East and North Africa, says there is no evidence of any major attacks on Christians in recent days, as claimed in many stories and online publications.
The claims followed a wave of violence in the Syrian coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus, which began on Thursday 6 March.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 1,000 people were killed in two days of violence, including over 700 civilians.
However, all reports suggest that almost all of the civilians killed were from the Alawite Shiite people, who remain largely loyal to deposed former president Bashar al-Assad.
“We know that four Christian men have died in the region where the violence took place. We know that one of them was hit by a stray bullet. We have no evidence that any of them were killed because of their faith. This certainly does not equate to a ‘slaughter of Christians’”, said Barnes.
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