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- Oct 29, 2020
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Papal representative to Syria warns Vatican diplomats ‘time is running out’
- Oct 15, 2020
In a rare move, Pope Francis’s representative in Syria met on Thursday with the ambassadors accredited to the Vatican, in an attempt to raise awareness on the impact of the eight-year-long civil war in the country.
Summit speakers discuss ongoing efforts to combat religious persecution
- Sep 30, 2020
A digital summit sponsored by In Defense of Christians, “Combating Global Christian Persecution,” showed that the fight against all forms of religious persecution continues with a renewing cast of political leaders.
Hope is dying in Syria, cardinal says
- Sep 20, 2020
With no end of conflict and no path toward economic recovery in sight, the Syrian people are losing hope that any sense of peace and normalcy will return, said the apostolic nuncio to Syria.
There were 5 priests in Aleppo, Syria: 2 died of COVID-19
- Sep 17, 2020
Four out of the five Franciscan friars working in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo tested positive for COVID-19, with two of them dying from the disease.
Christians, others warn Turkey is ‘weaponizing water’ in northeast Syria
- Aug 30, 2020
Parts of Syria’s north where Kurds, Christians and Yazidis have practiced religious freedom in recent years are reportedly again under attack by mainly Turkish military and their allied Syrian Islamist fighters.
Israeli court: Damascus Bibles to stay in National Library
- Aug 19, 2020
A quarter century after Israeli spies, a Canadian activist and a Syrian rabbi smuggled nine rare medieval Jewish manuscripts out of Damascus, an Israeli court decided the books will remain under the National Library’s custodianship for their preservation.
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