The Maronite Christians in Aleppo have restored their cathedral destroyed during the war. <\/p>\n
This video was projected during the ceremony, showing its reconstruction story. <\/p>\n
It was built in 1873, and renovated in 1914, on another church that already existed in the 15th century. <\/p>\n
This is what it looked like inside before the war. <\/p>\n
But the cathedral suffered the same fate as the Christians in Aleppo, and was deeply wounded between 2012 and 2016. <\/p>\n
Especially, in 2013 the jihadists targeted it in an attempt to erase all Christian vestiges in the area. <\/p>\n
When this area of \u200b\u200bthe city was liberated in 2016, a handful of Christians celebrated Christmas here. <\/p>\n
Now, with the help of the pontifical foundation ACN and other institutions, the cathedral has been rebuilt.
\n ... and the result is impressive.<\/p>\n
THOMAS HEINE-GELDERN<\/strong> Thomas Heine-Geldern asked the Syrian Christians to enter the new cathedral and pray for the thousands of benefactors who helped finance these works. <\/p>\n A light of hope on an uncertain horizon. While the wound in this cathedral is the first to heal, there is another that will take longer to recover: Before the war, there were around 180,000 Christians in Aleppo. Now there are no more than 30,000. <\/p>\n The restoration of this Maronite cathedral represents a new beginning for all of them. <\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal Translation: KM <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 28, 2020. The reconstruction lasted four years and was funded by the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qMlQ5PRGZdk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstacncatedralaleppoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstacncatedralaleppoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nExecutive President of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhen we now see the Cathedral of Saint Elias, it is a miracle. It is fantastic that its former splendor shines. Hopefully it will once again be the center of the entire Christian community, as it was until the agonizing war.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n