Emergency Aid for Lebanon

As a result of the renewed fighting in the Middle East, almost 20% of Lebanon’s population are now refugees. The Church has opened her doors to all those seeking refuge, but she herself is also poor and struggling. ACN has stepped in at once with an extensive emergency support package.

The refugees need support of every kind — food, medicine, and basic hygiene goods. Fuel is also urgently needed for the generators to provide electricity. As far as possible, the children still need to attend school if they are to have any hope of a better future. And all the harassed and struggling people, who were already suffering from years of crisis, likewise need spiritual and psychological support. “This war has pushed us to our very limits and thrown us right back to square one. The Church is truly a rock is the storm here,” says Marielle Boutros from Beirut, who coordinates our aid projects on the ground.

Father Maroun Youssef Ghafari, from Alma Sha’b, says, “We are all clinging firmly to the hope that the cross we bear will become a bridge to the Resurrection at some unknown future time.”

Please join us in helping the people of Lebanon, so they may not collapse under the weight of their cross.

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