Above, Maronite Bishop Mounir Khairallah, who chairs the Maronite patriarchal committee of the Maronite ‘Year of Martyrdom and Martyrs.’ Below, St. John Maron monastery in Kfarhay, Lebanon.

The martyrs of different Christian churches throughout the Middle East are together in heaven, interceding for peace in the region and enjoying the unity for which all Christians on earth must ...

Today's martyrs have become “the seed of Christian unity,” Pope Francis said Monday during an audience with the leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and his delegation.