His Beatitude Patriarch John X, received the Archbishop of Damascus for the Syriac Catholic Church, His Eminence Archbishop John Battah, accompanied by Father Imad Ghmeid and Mr. Joseph Sweid, at the Patriarchal Headquarters in Damascus.

Under the patronage of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and as part of the “Cultural Encounters for the Development of the New Syria” series, a symposium titled “The Role of