 This attack being planned by the United States is a criminal act, which will only reap more victims, in addition to the tens of thousands of these two years of war.This will destroy the Arab world's trust in the West" 

In September 2015, he urged Syrian Christians not to leave the country, despite the ongoing Syrian Civil War, and implored European countries not to encourage their emigration from their homeland.Patriarch Gregory III retired on 6 May 2017.