At a time when the world is confronted with the fight against the coronavirus, Eastern Christians ask the question of the presence or the feeling of absence of God at the time of the great tragedies which touched the Eastern world: of the Genocide of 1915 (in Turkey) , the Holodomor (1932/33 in Ukraine), the martyrs of the Soviet period, and the tragedies of our world, notably in the attacks of Daesh in the Middle East.