Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan warned, “We are very, very scared that if this crisis continues it will be the end of Christians in Lebanon and the whole of the Middle East in a few years."
Chaldean Catholic archbishop says the Taliban's rise to power in Afghanistan "provides encouragement to those who support that type of regime."
Sister Annie Demerjian told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that COVID-19 had brought the country’s recovery to a halt.
A recent surge in violence in the Tigray region has left 1,000 dead.
According to a Nigerian human rights organization, as many as 12,000 Christians have been killed by Boko Haram since June 2015.
Without pilgrims and tourists, Christians in the Holy Land are facing great hardship.
“I cannot imagine the Middle East without Christians. But the threat is real," said Father Andrzej Halemba of Aid to the Church in Need.
The threat of attacks from Islamist extremists continues, but the Egyptian government has made it easier to build churches.
Father Bidoyan and his father were killed during a visit to an Armenian Catholic church.
Bishop Désinord Jean of Hinche spoke out against demonstrators who, he said, were making a bad situation worse.
State-led violence and oppression are blamed for persecution suffered by Christians.
An estimated 700 girls have been abducted in the last year.
