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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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Mideast Catholic patriarchs urge Christmas hope amid misery

Patriarchs of the Middle East urged their faithful, overwhelmed with suffering, to hold on more tightly to hope this Christmastime.

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Patriarch: Iraqi Christians hope goodwill from papal trip carries over

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.

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Middle East Catholic patriarchs urge Christmas hope amid despair

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.

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Pre-Christmas celebration gives hope to Iraqi refugees still in Lebanon

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.

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Syriac patriarch: ‘Our martyrs are the torches of faith’

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.”

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Mediterranean summit to highlight threats to Christian survival in Middle East

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.

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Mideast patriarchs tell pope they’re concerned about Christian survival

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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