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Photo: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I embrace.

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Greek Orthodox Archbishop Demetrios expresses concern over rhetoric to convert Hagia Sophia into a Mosque 13-12-19
Prince Charles: Christians 'deliberately targeted' in Middle East 13-12-19
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 13-12-19
A list of churches and monasteries and shrines damaged in the Syrian crisis 22-11-13 13-12-18
Patriarch Gregorios III: Why attack places of worship, and especially churches? 13-12-18
Syrian rebels impose Islamic law on town’s Christians 13-12-17
Damascus archbishop: some children envy the stable of Bethlehem 13-12-17
Top Vatican ecumenical official in Moscow for meetings with Orthodox leaders 13-12-17
Iraqi Catholic leader asks West: 'If they kill us all, will you do something then?' 13-12-16
Greek Orthodox bishop denies urging Syrian Christians to take up arms 13-12-16
Retired Patriarch Lubomyr shows sympathy for anti-government demonstrators 13-12-13
Syrian Catholic bishop condemns Orthodox bishop’s call to arms 13-12-12
Ukrainian Catholic bishops join anti-government demonstrators 13-12-11
Orthodox officials fear for nuns kidnapped in Syria 13-12-11
Statement of the Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy of Syria 13-12-09
Missing Syrian nuns appear in video 13-12-09
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew prays for Ukraine 13-12-07
New Byzantine Catholic bishop in Passaic continues 1,000-year tradition 13-12-05
Orthodox prelate warns Greek lawmakers against vote for same-sex marriage 13-12-05
Turkey: major Byzantine monastery to become mosque 13-12-03
Pope renews support for Syrian Christians; rebels kidnaps Orthodox nuns 13-12-02
Christians, East and West, should combat persecution, Pope says in message to Patriarch Bartholomew I 13-12-02
Pope-emeritus Benedict says he prays daily for Christians of the Middle East 13-12-02
Ukrainian Catholic prelates back protestors, condemn police crackdown 13-12-02
European official rues plight of Iraq’s Christians, calls for aid cut to Baghdad 13-12-02