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SALT LAKE CITY — The first North American leader of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese — a Christian church with ancient roots in Arab lands in and around Syria — said his home country should not be entombed with the message and acts of evil that the Islamic State group, or ISIS, brings.
His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph Al-Zehlaoui is in Salt Lake City this weekend and will perform a ceremony of ordination on Sunday.
ksl.com/index.php?sid=37747170&nid=1016&title=isis-killers-dont-represent-people-of-syria-archbishop-says&s_cid=article-related-1&fm=related_storyHe spoke candidly in an interview with the Deseret News Saturday about the violence of his native country of Syria, which he left 20 years ago as an emigrant to the United States.