The small, entirely Christian village of Taybeh is suffering severe attacks by Israeli settlers.
Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian population in the Middle East.
The Greek-Catholic archbishop of Homs, Jean-Abdo Arbach, condemned the massacres of civilians that occurred in Syria last weekend, which left at least 1,000 dead.