Today, if you hear anyone in the Church of Antioch, anyone at all, keeping any good off of others, you should understand that he is speaking a language foreign to our heritage. Do not be fooled by appearances! Do not be deceived by positions! Extremism is not of Antioch’s nature. I know that today we ...
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Antiochian identity
The Bells of Return
The position, in which I stand in the service of our Church, was filled, prior to me, only by priests who were displaced by Israel from their country, in the year 1948, following the “Nakba”. In more precise terms, the work in the Church which I entered, as a minister, rested on priests from there ...
Read moreTo Wael Al-Dahdouh
Who is the elderly woman who came to you from one of the shelter schools in Gaza, bringing you bread with her? I followed what you had written about her with great attention and love. You described her visit to you with great care. You said that she advanced toward the tent, climbed four steps, ...
Read moreThe Arab Brethren
When we project, on this Arab expanse, intimate expressions taken from our households, from our flesh and blood, or from what we believe in, we do not only mean to talk about an ancient kinship in which some of us go back to our father Abraham or our grandfather Adam, but rather about an ongoing ...
Read moreObeying the Goodness
Mahmoud Darwish’s recommendation to President Mahmoud Abbas was to tell those who are occupying their land: “take my mother’s land by the sword, still, I will not sign my name to sell even a single inch of the thistles around the corn fields”. The recommendation is valid for all the peers of the two Mahmouds ...
Read moreThe Essence of our Heritage
I have met many people from our country who had left to come here. It struck me from the conversations we had that there are people from among our own who have forsaken the connection with their heritage. If you let the world strip you of yourself, it will not keep you well, but rather ...
Read moreSalim Baz
Yesterday, I watched, online, a scene from the graduation ceremony of my friend Salim Baz as a Doctor in Finance from a university in London. This event concerns me for several reasons, of which I will mention two. The first is the insistence of this brilliant young man that the scope of his academic work ...
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