The news of late has been a relentless stream of crises involving scandal, disease, corruption, and crime. But beneath the distracting headlines, there is comparatively little attention being given to a larger, ongoing tragedy: the plight of our Christian brothers and sisters in the Middle East, and the life-or-death threat they continue to face in their ancestral homelands.
The persecution of Christian communities in the Middle-East has been a concern for several years now. Their stories of exile and suffering are too unsettling to relate; but they are all too familiar to Armenian Christians. Indeed, our own people have been affected—as the evacuation of Armenians from Kessab last spring showed.
It is painful to think that the acts of persecution we still vividly remember, a century after the Genocide, are being re-enacted today, against the ancient Christian communities in the Middle East.
Let us not be the ones to forget them at this time. Rather, let us remember our brothers and sisters, as individuals and as a community. We can reach out to them, speak up for them—and above all pray for them, for an end to their affliction, and for peace throughout the region.
Our risen Lord knows all too well the sufferings of his children. To him we pray: Ungal, getso, yev voghormya; Receive our prayers, save your people, and have mercy.
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