Church Leaders Call for Aid for Christians, Minority Religious Groups in Middle East

Armenian, Greek, Catholic and Syriac church leaders are asking for President Donald Trump’s support in protecting the religious freedoms of oppressed Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. The Very Rev. Fr. Daniel Findikyan, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Archbishop Dionysius John Kawak of the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese for the Eastern U.S., and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of th