Jean-Serge wrote:I have been hearing very worrying informations abouts what's hapenning in the Patriarchate of Antioch :
- intercommunion with Monophysites and Catholics
-common churches with Catholics
- people baptized in the Orthodox church but attending Catholic masses and the opposite too...
Is there in this jurisdiction a resistance to this Half-uniatism? In some monasteries maybe... However no representative of the Antiochian patriarchate was present at the conference about ecumenism which took place in Thesalloniki (see www.uncutmoutain.com)
Read at this : http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=2887
even worse than Constantinople
So I am looking for positive testimonies about a resistance in the Patriarchate of Antioch.
Actually, as you said. The monasteries are. In Syria, there are Athonites who came around a decade ago to revive the monastic life along with the spiritual life there. Among those, are the known monasteries of the Theotokos of Hamatoura, the Athonite Abbott is the Arab Elder Father Panteleimon. Another one is the spiritual son of Elder Ephraim of Arizona and formely of Philotheou, Elder Ephraim of Lebanon (I may be wrong, it might be Syria. Last time I read about their monasteries and the spiritual reawakening was a long time ago. Indirectly a spiritual grandson of Saintly Venerable Joseph the Cave-dweller. Of course, there is the Patriarch that grounds his teeth when he hears that the Elders are gathering the youth and reawakening them spiritually. While teaching them how evil is really Ecumenism. There are two bishops under the Patriarchate of Antioch who oppose the idea of Ecumenism openly, but are the young next generation. They are the Bishops Paul of Aleppo and John of El-Hosn (Also Dean of Balamand today, and at that scandalous time of the declaration he was in Greece studying) (Yazigi is their last names, I'm not sure, but I think they're related too.) They, sadly, being a minority, cannot do anything. But of course, hope that the Ecumenist sickness will fade away in time. The bishops are getting old, they don't live in the Mountains! 
, so there is sure hope for the Middle East Antiochian Church.
