Courtesy photosClockwise from top left: Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan meets with youth at the Syriac Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Qamishli, Syria; Patriarch Younan processes into the Church of St. Peter and Paul and meets with a family in Qamishli.
The Syriac Catholic patriarch, following six-day pastoral visit, decries ‘painful’ situation on the ground: ‘Our very survival in our homeland is really at stake.’