The Immaculate Heart Messenger is the quarterly publication of the Fatima Family Apostolate. This 52-page magazine in full color is produced by an apostolate that has been endorsed repeatedly by the Cardinal Prefect of the Pontifical Council of the Family.

It offers you the most timely and colorful magazine available today, which is in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God wants such devotion spread throughout the world, as announced at Fatima. At the same time this magazine covers the whole range of Catholic faith and its practice as each Pope has said, "Fatima is a reaffirmation of the Gospels."

Father Robert J. Fox, editor of the Immaculate Heart Messenger, offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass daily at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament built by Mother Angelica, the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network, (EWTN). The Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Angels and this Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament - where Father offers daily Mass - is located near Hanceville, Alabama. Readers of the Immaculate Heart Messenger will be included in Father Fox's prayers for members of the Fatima Family Apostolate.

• Soufanieh from the Beginning * The Messages of Our Lady of Soufanieh * Pilgrimmage to Fatima - Register Now
  
• FFA Marian Congress 2002 * Testimony of Friends of Myrna Nazzour * Know Yourself and Your Future Mate
  
• Mary, Islam and the Qur'an * Messages from the Mother of the Church through Little Mary * Why Oil as a Sign?
  
• What is Truth? * Mary and the Moslems * Fr. Paul Marx's Corner * Editorial - Testimonial to Damascus Miracles
  
• Fatima Family Forum * Questions & Answers * News Briefs & Comments * FFA Chatterings

Editorial - Testimonial to Damascus Miracles

It seemed hardly coincidental that months before I departed for Damascus, Syria, I chose September 11, 2001, to be in flight there. I would spend time at an ideal Christian Community of Soufanieh that has developed in the midst of Muslim land. For the first time in 2000 years, in the very area where St. Paul the Apostle was converted and baptized, from where he went to convert the world to be one in Jesus Christ, miracles have been happening since 1982. They call for love and unity.

I was urged to write a book on Soufanieh. I would not do so without firsthand experience of the area. I needed to get to know the people directly involved. I needed to interview Church authorities of both Orthodox and Catholics. The Nazzour family at the center of the Soufanieh supernatural phenomenon has a Melkite rite Catholic mother, Myrna, and Orthodox father, Nicolas.

I was in Damascus, Syria, for a week, each day as a guest at the Virgin's House of Soufanieh. I was always made welcome by Nicolas and Myrna Nazzour.

I had many interviews with people and authorities knowledgeable about Soufanieh. These included His Holiness, Moran Mar Ignatius Zaka I, the Syrian Orthodox Prince Patriarch of Antioch; also Gregoire III, Patriarch of Melkite Catholics; Archbishop Dionysius Benham Jajjawi, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese; Father Elias Zahlaoui associated with Soufanieh from the beginning; Father Boulos Fadel (Myrna's Spiritual Director succeeding Fr. Malouli). I found great cooperation from all, including the friends of the local Soufanieth community. The love that flowed between all these people, the spirit of unity, was evident.