Nearly three years after the devastating 2023 earthquakes that ravaged Antakya and reduced its Christian community from 350 families to fewer than 90, the remaining Orthodox worshippers gathered on December 24, 2025, in the historic Church of Saint Peter—one of the world's oldest cave churches—for a poignant Christmas Eve Mass, symbolizing faith and efforts to reunite amid ongoing ruins.
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