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Nine years after the start of the Syrian conflict, the city of Aleppo, a long martyr city at the heart of the clashes, has lost four-fifths of its Christian population. From different denominations and from different Churches, the Christians of Aleppo are now only a few tens of thousands, generally elderly, the youngest having often fled the torn country.

Despite this dramatic finding, the city’s Maronite cathedral is to be inaugurated on Monday, July 20. This event does not celebrate the construction of Saint Elijah’s Cathedral, but its restoration after the serious damage it had suffered as a result of the bombardments – the roof in particular had been totally destroyed.

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” It is a sign of hope after the feeling of having lost everything “, rejoices Mgr Joseph Tobji, Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo. ” We must send out a message of faith to show that Eastern Christians still exist in Aleppo and that death does not prevail over us, ” he continues. And for him, “ it is not the quantity of the faithful that counts, but the quality of the faith. The Apostles were only
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