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February 19, 2015

Patriarchs' Lenten messages focus on struggles of Mideast Christians

Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham is pictured in this 2013 photo in a church in Damascus, Syria. In a Lenten message, the Melkite patriarch called the situation in the Middle East the greatest tragedy since World War II.

BEIRUT - The Middle East is suffering a "Way of the Cross" that is the greatest tragedy since the Second World War, Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham said in a Lenten message about suffering.

Published in International