I wasn't aware of this but am glad to see that the new king has a long history of defending persecuted Christians — something which gets ignored a lot of the time.
Here's a bit from The Pillar where you can read much more.
It’s hard to identify the precise moment that Charles publicly embraced the cause of suffering Christians. But he took a significant step in 2013, when the Islamist group ISIS was rampaging across Syria and Iraq.
The future king visited a Coptic Orthodox Church center and a Syrian Orthodox church that year in southeast England, before hosting a reception for Middle Eastern Christians at Clarence House, his London residence.
“The Prince has expressed concern about the current challenges facing Christians in some Middle Eastern nations and wanted to meet members of those communities resident in the UK to find out more,” his office explained at the time.
“The Prince of Wales wants to draw attention to the importance of harmony and understanding between peoples of all faiths.”
Charles met the Middle Eastern Christians with Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a coordinator of the “A Common Word” initiative, in which Muslim leaders reached out to their Christian counterparts following Benedict XVI’s Regensburg address. Through contacts like the Jordanian prince, the heir to the throne kept abreast of the deteriorating situation in the Middle East.
From 2013 onward, Charles began to speak out frequently and insistently on behalf of persecuted Christians.
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