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Cardinal says Catholics called to bring hope to Middle East Christians
17-11-2009
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians around the world are called to help their brothers and sisters in the Middle East who lack almost everything, including hope, said U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley, grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.
"It is sad to say that the land where our blessed Lord suffered itself still suffers and our beloved fellow Christians continue to suffer from lack of mobility, lack of opportunity, and -- it might almost be said -- from lack of hope," the cardinal said Nov. 13.
Opening the meeting of the Grand Magisterium, the knights' governing council, Cardinal Foley spoke about the extensive work the order's nearly 25,000 knights carry out on behalf of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which covers Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus.
The knights fund seminaries, schools, hospitals and social centers throughout the patriarchate. Cardinal Foley told the knights' leadership that two events in 2010 would help bring the situation of Christians in the Holy Land to the world's attention: Pope Benedict XVI's scheduled visit to Cyprus in June and a special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, which is scheduled to take place at the Vatican in October.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20091116.htm
