Patriarch of Antioch for Syriac Catholic Church Says Shepherds Will Continue Crying Out for Middle East Christians’ Rights to Be Defended.

Despite hopes otherwise, Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III  Younan warns that one of the oldest

Christian Churches’ survival is being threatened in Syria and Iraq, and has appealed for Christian people in the Middle East’s rights to be defended.

The Patriarch of Antioch for Syriac Catholic Church, who leads some 200,000 Syriac Catholics worldwide, stressed this to Zenit as he clarified that making progress is challenging in a region that ‘is hostile to all civil progress.’

leggi tutto

©   https://zenit.org/articles/
29.12.2017