In the midst of a much-publicized “refugee crisis,” Christians in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East have struggled for recognition as the group most targeted for persecution.
“For the last five years, the general mood among my family and the Syrian community in Pittsburgh has been one of increasing hopelessness,” explains Marlo Safi, the daughter of first-generation Syrian-Americans studying at the University of Pittsburgh. Her church, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is part of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East. Safi and her fellow worshippers trace their roots to the early Christian communities of first century Antioch.*
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