And What Do Their Orthodox Counterparts Say?

Several top Church officials in Syria, including the Vatican’s ambassador to the country, have praised Pope Francis’s visit to Iraq earlier this month, saying the visit sent a message of hope to the entire region.https://t.co/I6eQUsN414

— Crux (@Crux) March 23, 2021

Is this anything more than ultramontanist propaganda?

Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism

Rethinking the Saudi Connection (I) by Srdja Trifkovic

Help Persecuted Christians

7 steps. Help the persecuted.

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, March 27, 2015

Remember the Nazarenes: An Interview With Bishop Warduni by Alberto Carosa

Kyrie Eleison.

Post by Orthodox Christian Network.

Welcome Mediators, or Unwanted Interference?

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

A Mideast Without Christians?

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

The Assyrians of the Middle East: The History and Culture of a Minority Christian Community

Eastern Christian Books: The Assyrians

The End of Christianity in the Middle East? by Eden Naby

More on Christians in the Near and Middle East

The Precarious Position of Christians in the Holy Land
Middle Eastern Christians struggle due to American foreign policy, Jewish nationalism, and Muslim jihad

Liturgical traditions in the Middle East, could be threatened by conflicts


Patriarch of the Maronites, to prepare texts for Way of the Cross, at the Colosseum

Zenit: Pope's Homily At Conclusion of Week of Prayer

More:
"Unity is in itself a Privileged Instrument" [2013-01-28]
Papal Address to Roman Rota
"The current crisis of faith ... brings with it a crisis of the conjugal relationship" [2013-01-28]
Rome Reports

On the Christian Sense of 'Carpe Diem'
"Every day can become the today of salvation" [2013-01-28]

Hungarian academy exhibits modern Byzantine icons in Rome

Chronicles Contributors on Recent Blowback

Thomas Fleming, Reaping the Whirlwind - taken down from Daily Mail. Too controversial? Fortunately we do not live in that land of the weak, the U.K.

Trifkovic Interview: Anti-U.S. Fury and Islamization

Benedict XVI to Visit Lebanon

Rome Reports: How to watch Benedict XVI's visit to Lebanon live

website for the visit (which you will not find at the RR link)

EWTN will be covering the trip:

Apostolic Journey To Lebanon: Visit To Basilica Of St. Paul (Live)
Fri. Sept. 14 at 11 AM ET & 10 PM ET
Pope Benedict XVI visits the Basilica before signing the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation.

Apostolic Journey To Lebanon: Meeting With Government Officials And Representatives (Live)
Sat. Sept. 15 at 4 AM ET & 5 PM ET
The Holy Father meets with the President of Lebanon, and the Prime Minister and Speaker of the Parliament. He also meets with the heads of Muslim communities before going on to pronounce an address to political and cultural leaders.

Apostolic Journey To Lebanon: Meeting With Youth (Live)
Sat. Sept. 15 at 11 AM ET & 10 PM ET
Meeting with Youth in the square across from the Maronite Patriarchate of Bkerke.

Apostolic Journey To Lebanon: Mass And Angelus (Live)
Sun. Sept. 16 at 2:30 AM ET & 11 AM ET
The Holy Father will celebrate Mass (and Angelus) at Beirut City Centre Waterfront and consign the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation.