The heads of the Maronite Catholic Church and the Syriac Catholic Church “discussed the current situation and overlapping crises in Lebanon and their effects on the Lebanese people in general and Christians in particular,” according to the report, as well as “the issue of the [Lebanese] presidential vacuum in more depth and the need to quickly elect a president for the republic to save the country from total collapse.
The city of Antioch, where the believers were first called Christians, has been all but wiped out by the recent earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria
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