(DETROIT, MI) — Over 900 people attended a special service intended to pray for Christians in the Middle East at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit.
Allen Vigneron, Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, called the gathering for Chaldean, Melkite, Maronite, Armenian, Syriac, and Latin Rite Catholics.
“It was very inspiring and very uplifting,” said Khouloud Yammine, a Maronite Catholic who attended.
Lebanese Maronite Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, Maronite priests Chorbishop Alfred Badawi and Father Tony Massad, Orthodox Archpriest George Shalhoub, and Melkite priest Father Michel Cheble participated in the prayer.
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