Easter is feast of hope, patriarchs tell beleaguered Middle Easterners
Eastern Catholic patriarchs related the Easter message of Resurrection and hope to the political situations in the Middle East.
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by 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 | 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 | Sep 20, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
Syriac Catholic bishops, meeting in Lebanon for the first time since 2019 because of the pandemic, called on governments in the Middle East to work “to stop wars and renounce the logic of sectarianism and racism.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syria, Syriac Christians | 0 |
The Syriac Catholic patriarch said the situation in Syria “continues to be humanly unbearable and devastating” and risks emptying the war-torn country of its Christian community for good.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 20, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syriac Christians | 0 |
Political leaders had “very nice words” during Pope Francis’s early March trip to Iraq, but now Christians pray “that those words, those declarations, will be applied on the daily level, on the ground,” said Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Assyrian Christians, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Christians in the Middle East, Christmas, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, Lebanon, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Patriarch Louis Sako, Patriarch Youssef Absi, Syria, Syriac Christians | 0 |
Amid suffering and despair, further darkened by the coronavirus pandemic, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East urged their faithful at Christmastime to hold on to hope.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 15, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, Iraqi refugees, Lebanon, migrants and refugees, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syriac Christians | 0 |
More than 100,000 Christians driven out from Iraq’s Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State in the summer of 2014 are living as refugees in Lebanon.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syriac Christians | 0 |
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the massacre by Islamic militants at Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Baghdad, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan reminded the faithful that “our martyrs are the torches of faith that illuminate our paths of life and ignite in us the fire of love toward everyone.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Bari, Church in Europe, Iraq, lead, Mediterranean, Middle East Christianity, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Pope Francis, Syria | 0 |
When some 50 bishops and patriarchs from different rites throughout the Mediterranean gather in Bari this month to discuss the dire situation many countries in the region face, the survival of Christians in the Middle East will likely emerge as a central topic.
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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