Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing before us today. We certainly appreciate your comments and your opening remarks.
Your Eminence, I'd like to begin with you, if I may. Christians and religious minorities in the region have been the subject of persecution for centuries. Certainly, the Greek Orthodox faithful have not been immune to such persecution. Can you give us a sense of the lasting effects on a community of people who endure such bias and such hatred, particularly the effects on the children and the future of the children?