Lebanese nun says she learned from writing icon for London shrine
In London, prayers now rise up to God from the shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, and also from Lebanon, where the shrine’s icon originated.
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by bcadmin | Sep 17, 2022 | Art, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Melkite Catholic Church, News, nun | 0 |
In London, prayers now rise up to God from the shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, and also from Lebanon, where the shrine’s icon originated.
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 | 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, marian shrines, Melkite Catholic Church, News, sanctuary | 0 |
In the village of Maghdouché, overlooking the ancient Mediterranean coastal city of Sidon, a statue of the Blessed Mother holding the infant Jesus graces the hilltop. It is also the site where holy tradition says Mary waited for her Jesus while he was preaching in Sidon and Tyre, thus the name, “Our Lady of Mantara,” or “waiting.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Anti-Christian persecution, Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Israel, Melkite Catholic Church, News | 0 |
The burning of two Christmas trees in the early morning of Dec. 26 in the northern Israeli Arab city of Sakhnine was carried out “intentionally and premeditatedly,” said the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2020 | Armenian Catholic Church, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Christians in the Middle East, Church in Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Catholic Church, Egypt, Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon, Maronite Church, Melkite Catholic Church, Middle East, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Patriarch Raphael Sako, Patriarch Youssef Absi, Pope Francis, Syria, Syriac Christians, Vatican | 0 |
In a private meeting with Pope Francis, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East had an opportunity to sound the alarm regarding the survival of Christians in the region as a result of persecution, extremism, economic insecurity and immigration to the West.
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