COMMUNIQUE – Here below is the Final Comunique for the 2014 Holy Land Coordination issued by the Bishops participating in the Holy Land Coordination meeting on January 11 to 16, 2014. Bishops…
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RAS BAALBEK and AL-QAA, Lebanon — Christian villages on the Lebanese border with Syria are increasing security, both militarily and on the civilian level, following death threats by a local municipality figure and reports of…
In spite of the danger, Christian families have sent their children to Church where the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch said a prayer and offered gifts to the children. There follows His Beatitude’s…
Aid to the Church in Need Archbishop John Darwish. Syrian-born Archbishop John Darwish heads the Melkite Archdiocese of Furzol, Zahle and Bekaa in Lebanon. With a population of 200,000 Christians, Zahle…
Letter of His Beatitude Gregorios III Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of Alexandria and of Jerusalem For the Feast of the Nativity 2013 May divine grace and apostolic blessing rest…
This list has been assembled by the Patriarchate after exhaustive research and accompanies Patriarch Gregorios’ plea (see the following post): “Why attack places of worship?” To this list, His Beatitude adds this…
The Syrian crisis is severely affecting various sectors of civilian life and the number of victims of this “world” war is growing day by day. In this war against Syria the nature…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian village of Kanayé, Orontes River, in the Governorate of Idlib, has been invaded by Islamist militants that terrorize the population, threaten a massacre and have imposed…
Liqaa Center – Rabweh (Lebanon) 6/12/2013 The Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy of Syria, presided over by Patriarch Gregorios III, met in special session with Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Vatican’s…
Following an increase in violence in the country and the abduction of Orthodox nuns, the Greek Melkite patriarch of Antioch and All the East has reiterated the Church’s determination to remain in…