"We are resolved to be martyrs in this land, blood martyrs, like some of our faithful. Despite the woes and the quite tragic situation that we have been experiencing for nearly three years now, we want to stay and help our faithful to stay." Patriarch Grégoire III Laham, speaking of his clerics with Pope Francis…

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The Shroud of Turin will be publicly exhibited for an extended period in 2015, it has been announced. The famed linen cloth with its ghostly image believed by many to be that of the crucified Christ as he lay in the tomb is set to draw thousands of faithful when it is taken from its…