Meets about ten patriarchs and bishops Easterns Francis Pope , next Thursday, to study ways of maintaining the Christian presence in the Middle East, which flops in bloody conflicts and تجتاحه waves of radical Islam. The most tense areas are Syria , Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt. And find the Catholic and Orthodox churches in these areas before Islam, itself in the situation of religious and security , social and economic very difficult. The large number of Christian migration. It is estimated that the number of Christians in the East today between 10 to 13 million, representing about 36 percent of Lebanese and 10 percent of Egyptians and 5.5 % of Jordanians and 5% of the Syrians and 1 to 2 % of Israelis and 1.2% of the Palestinians , according to statistics of the association of the East . The Pope Benedict XVI has called in 2010 to a special synod to discuss the situation of Christians in the Middle East, and the emphasis on authenticity and historical Tasalhm in their countries of origin and historical relations with the Muslim brothers , and their contributions to civilization in their communities . It is the date of the Synod to the day , I got almost radical developments in the Middle East, and the changes have taken place in the systems of governance and revolutions involving more than one Arab country ... Christians were the part and parcel of the movement of their own, but they are in more than one country become direct targets and became churches prone to blow up headers worshipers, also became the senior clerics vulnerable to abduction and torture, The impact necessarily the growing migratory movements and displacement , which affected sections great peoples , impacted directly on the presence of Christians in the East , so that their numbers have decreased already in the previous decades, the band came to form a new blow to the historical presence . And was invited to the annual meeting of the Pontifical Council of Churches Eastern , which began Tuesday, prominent figures in the Catholic Churches of Eastern Patriarch Lebanese Maronite Beshara sponsor , and the Bishop of Aleppo of the Chaldean Antoine Odo , the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for Roman Catholics Gregory III Laham , the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael first Sacco, as well as the Patriarch Abraham , Isaac , the Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic , and Nerses Bedros XIX Termuna Armenian Catholic Patriarch , and the Patriarch Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:34:36 +0000
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