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Cardinal keeping focus on Middle East turmoil

byStaff writers
6 March 2011
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PHILADELPHIA (CNS): Cardinal John Foley is keeping a watchful eye on the revolution in Egypt and other nations in the Middle East, despite his recent retirement and resignation as grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

The organisation helps to raise funds for the works of the Church in that region.

“I can understand the current unrest – it’s an expression of desire for democracy, but I hope it doesn’t become a situation in which Christians are further discriminated against in any of these countries,” Cardinal Foley said.

“The situation is so unstable there, and of course Christians are such a minority there.”

In Egypt, about 10 per cent of the population is Christian, primarily Cop-tic Orthodox, he explained.

“We had just been asked by the Holy Father to help especially the Latin-rite Christians in Egypt and Lebanon in addition to Israel, Palestine and Jordan,”
Cardinal Foley said.

The latter three countries are part of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre support.

“Egypt and Lebanon are separate Latin dioceses, but they are in need of assistance also and are considered part of the Holy Land,” he said.

The support aids parishes and schools in those lands, and to help Christians maintain their institutions and presence in a heavily non-Christian environment, as well as some humanitarian assistance, the cardinal said.

“We certainly want to maintain the continued presence of Christians in the Holy Land, the successors of the original followers of Christ, in the land where he was born, where he lived, where he died and where he rose from the dead,” Cardinal Foley said.

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When then-Archbishop Foley began his duties as grand master, the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem received about $7 million euros (US$9.6 million) a year.

“Now, they’re getting $10 million euros (US$13.8 million) a year” to send to the Holy Land, he said.

The funds are contributed by a membership of about 28,000 Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre around the globe.

 

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