War truce declared to make room for Christ.

[VTA]

A London-based charity has erected a giant bronze statue of Jesus on a Syrian hilltop after organising a truce between warrring factions to safeguard its passage from Lebanon.

The statue stands, arms outstretched, on the Cherubim mountain, overlooking a route pilgrims took from Constantinople to Jerusalem in ancient times. The statue is 12.3 metres (40ft) tall and stands on a base that brings its height to 32 metres.

Ghadban said the main armed groups in the area – Syrian government forces, rebels and the local militias of Sednaya, the Christian town near the statue site – stopped fighting for three days while the statue was erected.

The project, called I Have Come to Save the World, is run by the London-based St Paul and St George Foundation, of which Ghadban is the director. It was previously named the Gavrilov Foundation, after the Russian businessman Yuri Gavrilov.

Documents filed with the Charity Commission describe it as supporting "deserving projects in the field of science and animal welfare" in England and Russia, but the commission's accounts show it spent less than £250 in the last four years. Ghadban said most of the financing came from private donors.

Russians have been a driving force behind the statue project. The Kremlin is the chief ally of the embattled Assad, and the Orthodox churches in Russia and Syria have close ties.

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[JBond]

Funny how things change. The Russians? Imagine if someone tried to build a public monument of Jesus in DC.