SYRIA, Damascus — [Fox News] The Syrian Ministry of Tourism invited journalists from Tehran to Tunis to check out its top attractions during a trip to the normally reclusive country. Fox News hopped a caravan and went along for the ride.
Syrians are proud of the fact that Christians and Muslims have traditionally lived together in harmony in Syria. The historical monuments alone tell the story of the intertwining of faiths.
Just to mention a few things that the article left out in reference to the Melkites in Syria, unified to the Universal Church in Rome:
The current Greek Catholic (Melkite) presence in union with the Catholic Church is in Syria a strong and a not insignficant part of the 10% of the Syrian-Christian Population, although most reside now in Iraq, which unfortunately is also dwindling due to increasing persecution.
It has a beautiful Cathedral in the old city of Damascus.
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