Imagine if Churchill had been a secret nazi agent in WW2. That is Obama today.
Posted on 02/19/2015 5:58:56 AM PST by marshmallow
Patriarch Laham says the Middle East is suffering a 'Way of the Cross' in Lenten message
The Middle East is suffering a “Way of the Cross” that is the greatest tragedy since World War Two, Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham said in his Lenten message.
He said the Church, despite its efforts, is having difficulty meeting the growing needs it faces in the region.
“We fail in front of the suffering of our people in all walks of life, Christians and Muslims. It’s a universal suffering,” he said.
“We as pastors are with our people, at their side, in front of them, behind them,” Patriarch Laham said, adding that it is “as if we wash the feet of those who are suffering as Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.”
“We are in the fifth year of the Way of the Cross,” especially in Syria, Iraq and the Palestinian territories and also in Lebanon, “which is affected in a tragic way by war, which rages around it,” Patriarch Laham said.
He continued: “This is a tragedy of the greatest tragedies of history — not just in the region, but in the world — since World War Two.
“We call on all citizens and our children (to work together and with Pope Francis) to not let the flame of hope be extinguished in your hearts.”
The Syrian-born prelate pointed out that Lebanon has accepted waves of displaced people and refugees: from Palestine since 1949, from Syria since 2011 and, currently and in stages, from Iraq.
Lebanon is now hosting more than 1.5 million refugees — mostly Syrians and an increasing flow of Iraqi Christians — putting a strain on the country’s infrastructure and resources for its existing population of around four million people.
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Tens of thousands of Muslims are being brought to this country. Why not Christians?
Imagine if Churchill had been a secret nazi agent in WW2. That is Obama today.
Christians need their own defensible homeland in the Middle East, as the Jews have.
The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them; but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.—Psalm 37
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