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by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | AVSI, Cardinal Mario Zenari, Hospitals, lead, Medical care, News, Pope Francis, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Vatican | 0 |
With Syria’s civil war well into its 12th year, the Vatican’s envoy to the country, Italian Cardinal Mario Zenari, has said high poverty rates and the lack of reconstruction is turning the population into “beggars” who are beginning to lose hope.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, News, Syria, Syrian Civil War | 0 |
Aleppo, besieged and destroyed in Syria’s war, is calm now, but 11 years of war and the accompanying economic sanctions have left the city impoverished.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, lead, News, Refugee crisis, Syria, Temporary Protected Status, Venezuela | 0 |
Catholic immigration leaders are calling on the Biden administration to redesignate Venezuela and Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), citing the ongoing humanitarian crises that exist in each country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, humanitarian aid, News, Syria, Syrian Civil War | 0 |
More than 30 international aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe should the U.N. Security Council fail to renew a resolution by July 10 allowing the cross-border delivery of lifesaving assistance to northwest Syria.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News, Syria, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
The Syriac Catholic bishops said they discussed “the suffering of their children” in the Middle East.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Melkite Catholic Church, News, Pope Francis, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Vatican | 0 |
While the world must pay attention to Russia’s war on Ukraine, it cannot forget Syria and its people, which have been under the threat of bombs and violence for a dozen years, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | Armenian Catholic Church, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Patriarch Louis Sako, Syria, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
Eastern Catholic patriarchs related the Easter message of Resurrection and hope to the political situations in the Middle East.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Featured, Lebanon, Malta, Maltese government, Mediterranean, News, Pope Francis, Syria, U.S. & World News, Visit to Malta, Yemen | 0 |
In his brief visit to Malta, Pope Francis once again waded into the migration issue, reminding the country’s people of the “unusual kindness” they are known for while delicately questioning the Maltese government’s controversial policies toward migrants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2022 | Casey Chalk, Isis, Islam, News, Pakistan, Persecution, Radical Islam, Syria, The Dispatch | 0 |
Although it does allude to many different episodes of the abuse meted out to Christians by their Muslim neighbors, especially in Pakistan, The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2022 | Cardinal Mario Zenari, Church in the Middle East, lead, News, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
As the war in Syria reaches its eleventh anniversary, the Vatican’s envoy to the country has lamented that in Europe, similar devastation is unfolding in the Ukraine conflict.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Church in the Middle East, Jesuits, lead, martyrdom, News, Syria, Syrian Civil War | 0 |
The beatification of the Dutch Jesuit father Frans van der Lugt, who was murdered in Syria in 2014, is off the table – and most likely permanently.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 29, 2021 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon, Melkite Catholic Church, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Patriarch Raphael Sako, Patriarch Youssef Absi, Syria | 0 |
Patriarchs of the Middle East urged their faithful, overwhelmed with suffering, to hold on more tightly to hope this Christmastime.
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