{"id":30823,"date":"2018-09-18T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T07:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=30823"},"modified":"2018-09-18T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:36:04","slug":"syria-we-will-always-be-people-of-hope-and-life-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/09\/18\/syria-we-will-always-be-people-of-hope-and-life-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: \u201cWe will always be people of hope and life.\u201d &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SYRIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> \u201cWe will always be people of hope and life.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On September 9, Catholic faithful and Church leaders including Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Vatican nuncio to Syria, bishops of other Christian churches; and representatives of Aleppo civil authorities, gathered at the Our Lady of the Assumption Syriac Catholic Cathedral for the inauguration and rededication of the restored Cathedral in war-torn Aleppo, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Officiating at the Mass, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan proclaimed that \u201cthe will of life has overcome death; hope and security have overcome despair and chaos. Our people have overcome and\u00a0 we will always be people of hope and life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his homily, Younan recalled his visit to Aleppo in 2017, when he celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in the damaged cathedral with the faithful assembled under umbrellas \u201cbecause the rain was falling on us from all sides of this cathedral.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are gathered today to sing thanks and praise to the Lord who gave us this wonderful gift to be able to repair this cathedral in order to recuperate its beauty of the past. We are so delighted to come once again and pray with you, in this cathedral so dear to you,\u201d the patriarch said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFor many years, this house of God suffered a lot of devastation, being at the demarcation line with terrorists. It is now restored for worship, a sign of hope and victory of the good over the evil that destroyed so many churches and mosques in this beloved city, Aleppo,\u201d Younan said. He noted that Aleppo was recognized for centuries as the most important centre for many Christian communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cDuring the horrendous siege at the hands of criminals that lasted four years, this second-largest and prosperous city of Syria was deprived of basic necessities,\u201d the patriarch said. \u201cYou lacked water, food, fuel and electricity. All this happened under the eyes of the \u2018civilized\u2019 world. You and hundreds of thousands of civilians under the ruling of the legitimate Syrian government were forgotten, abandoned even manipulated by those opportunistic geo-politicians of our present time,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u201cAleppo has returned, and Syria will return to its previous glory, and even more beautiful because there are many civil and spiritual officials who felt the duty of their responsibilities to serve \u2026 with integrity and honesty,\u201d Younan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe should first thank God almighty that helped you, beloved brothers and sisters, under the leadership of our brother-Archbishop Antoine Chahda (of Aleppo), to undertake the hard and costly works of repairing this wonderful cathedral built in the 1970s,\u201d the patriarch said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He thanked the \u201cgenerous benefactors\u201d from the archdiocese, Catholic organizations and the government of Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe owe to our Catholic brothers and sisters from around the world a lot of appreciation and gratitude for the charitable and unconditional solidarity toward us and all Christians of the Middle East, most particularly the two beleaguered countries of Syria and Iraq,\u201d Younan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the Mass which commemorated the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the Patriarch stressed that Aleppo still needs her intercession after so much suffering and prayed that she would grant the Middle East \u201ca true peace and unshakable security based on justice for all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYRIA \u201cWe will always be people of hope and life.\u201d &nbsp; 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