Amidst the successive and dramatic developments taking place in the Middle East, so many questions are raised with extreme concern and worry about the future that awaits the Christians of the Middle East. Press reports indicate that the Christian presence has been repeatedly dwindling to worrying levels with fears that the churches would one day be bereft of the living stones, or rather the faithful who raise their hands in supplication seeking the Almighty Lord's mercy and protection.

On July 10, 2025 a delegation from the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), representing the Executive Committee, left for the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand in northern Lebanon, to convey condolences to His Beatitude Patriarch John Yazigi, Patriarch of the Antioch and All the East of the Greek Orthodox, marking the martyrdom of church members following the bloody and the terrorist bombing that took place at Mar Elias Church in Douweila, Damascus.

July is the month that marks the greatest ever anniversary in the world. It is the precious Blood of Lord Jesus Christ.

In front of the royal temple door, the Patriarch of Antioch, John X, most blessed, loving, and venerable, stood addressing fate, delivering words improvised for the occasion.

His Beatitude could not read what he had written, because the written word, for all its greatness, can imprison the spirit and restrain emotion, and the situation called for feeling as much as it did for reason.

The American Universality of Madaba (AUM), a beacon of higher education in Jordan that outshines other universities, has made a special incentive scholarship for students of Latin Patriarchate schools. This outstanding measure reflects the AUM’s endeavor to further promote higher education in Jordan by facilitating the enrolment of Latin Patriarchate schools’ students in the university.

Fears mount for Syrian Christians about whether the new Islamist government is committed to their protection following the recent deadly church suicide bombing in Damascus.

In a message addressed by Pope Leo XIV to the participants in the Second Annual Rome Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which the Vatican hosted on its second day, Pope Leo XIV said: This is "a clear indication of the Church’s desire to participate in these discussions that directly affect the present and future of our human family."

On June 22, press reports indicated that a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church, in Dweil’a, on the outskirts of Damascus, as the believers were praying safely inside the church under the eyes of God, which caused an unspecified number of fatalities an

On October 20, 2024, Pope Francis held his final canonization ceremony for new saints.

The Catholic Center for Studies and Media (CCSM) has strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist attack that targeted St. Elias Church--affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East--in the Dweila area of ​​the Syrian capital, Damascus, which caused the martyrdom of dozens of people during Sunday Mass.