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When Islamic State came, the monks had just finished hiding the manuscripts

July 17, 2019

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CWN Editor's Note: The Syriac Catholic Mar Behnam Monastery in Khidr, Iraq, was desecrated in 2015. It is currently being restored.

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Sun19 October
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Gospel Excerpt, Luke 18:1-8: Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, "There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just…

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