A statement released by the Franciscan order said a missile strike from a warplane hit the monastery, destroying one of its wings and setting its storage facility ablaze.
The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate on Sept. 12 held a ceremony in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square to welcome the remains of Patriarch Gregory Peter XV Agagianian.
A new landmark honoring the Virgin Mary will be inaugurated in a grand celebration Aug. 1–4 in the town of Al-Hwash, near Homs, Syria.