4% of the population of Montreal are Arabs! The insanity of politics and the fear for their fate and their children has driven most of them to emigrate out of their countries. When my friend Samir Abi-Ghanem bade me farewell before I travelled, he told me that, here, in this city whose inland seaports open ...
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Antiochian Diaspora
An Image of the Estrangement
I saw them. The three of them, two little girls and a boy, were in front of a building run by their father. The eldest girl, no more than ten years old, was humming a song by a singer from her country. As for the middle one, she was wiping, with a paper towel, something ...
Read moreTo Metropolitan Saba Esper
“You are a father, a brother and a friend” is not said of many people. May your faithfulness endure. I am writing to you after your election as Metropolitan (again) over the Archdiocese of New York and all North America. I am not discussing now the laws of your new diocese which allow, in the ...
Read moreA Servant to the Lord of Glory
A few days ago, His Beatitude Patriarch John issued a decree appointing His Eminence Metropolitan Antonios El Souri, Metropolitan of Zahle, the bride of Bekaa, and of Baalbek and Dependencies, as Patriarchal Vicar of the Archdiocese of New York and All North America. This is a significant decision for a number of reasons, two of ...
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