The Voice of the suffering and persecuted​

"My suspicions came up immediately after the attack, because I felt that a ragtag band of youngsters could not have carried out this kind of very professional thing."

“The world has responded with generosity to the plight of the Ukrainian people. Many donations are reaching the bordering countries, but there is now a need for vehicles to transport the goods to those who need them in the country, often in locations that have been heavily damaged, or are ...

"Some people gather well before Mass on Sunday, and many others stay on after Mass to spend time with the sisters and the other families."

"Dear friends, thank you very much, we receive your help. May God bless you for this sign of solidarity for our priests and nuns.”

Whether big or small, each of the order’s houses or convents has been turned into a point of refuge for the neediest:

"Every day we lose thousands of our best engineers, our best doctors, our best teachers, because the loss of value of the Lebanese pound to the dollar destroyed the value of salaries.”

Cardinal Dolan called on faithful to help persecuted Christians, and in doing so model themselves on St. Veronica, who comforted Jesus on the way to Golgotha and St. Simon of Cyrene, who carried his cross. The task at hand for Christians in the West, said the Cardinal, is “prayer, advocacy, ...

"We live in a country where Christianity is often no more than skin deep; it hasn’t grown roots in the life of the population."

So far, thousands of people have found refuge and some respite there on their way to other countries in western Europe.

“In 27 years of service, I have observed that they prefer Christians only as sweepers not as managers. This prejudice runs deep in society even among those educated."