Vatican City, June 19 (IANS/AKI) world powers seem unable to solve conflicts causing "terrible suffering" to Christians and other mi**rities in the Middle East, Pope Francis told the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church on Friday. "In the Middle East your Church and other Christian communities and mi**rities continue to endure terrible suffering caused by war, violence and persecution." "How much pain! How many in**cent victims! Yet the world's powerful seems incapable of finding solutions," Francis told Patriarch of Antioch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II during a meeting at the Vatican. A "special place" should be reserved in their prayers for two Orthodox bishops abducted in Syria in April 2013, Gregorios Ibrahim of the Syrian Orthodox Church and Paul Yazigi, Francis said.