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Syria: “You journeyed with our suffering people until death”
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He was injured during the Syrian war, in 2012, when a staircase collapsed during a bombing, crushing his hands and much of his face.
With ACN support, Churches rebuild quake-hit houses in Syria
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has committed to providing more than US$550,000 in aid to help Christians return to their apartments and houses, ...
ACN to pay rent for victims of earthquake in Syria
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At least 60 buildings in Aleppo collapsed in the earthquake but the number of houses that may need to be razed will probably in the ...
Synod in the Middle East can be “a new spring for the Church”
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" How do we face the social problems? Our people have become very poor. How can we face the political problems? We live these cries ...
Syria: Aleppo trembles again, as the Church doubles down on efforts to help the population
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" Everybody was screaming, they should have exited the house, but everybody stayed put, so I stayed with them. I crouched under a beam and ...
ACN representative: “The world must not forget Syria”
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"A 15-year-old boy told me he only had one wish: to take life back to how it was before the war. After 12 years of ...
Syria earthquake: “Less than a minute is stronger than the whole war”
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"They use many different expressions to express the 12-year war. But if you ask them about the earthquake that they were exposed to, the answer ...
‘Absolute despair’ in Syria as country is hit by two earthquakes
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“The Church in Syria is shocked by the catastrophe. Even as far away as Beirut, people went down to the streets, worried that another explosion ...
New convent beckons Christians to return to Iraq
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The jihadist terror group was eventually defeated, but the buildings, including two important churches, were almost destroyed, and the population scattered, some to refugee camps, ...
Syria: From prisoner to archbishop
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It is hard to scare a man who spent months locked in a bathroom, threatened daily with death and who was even subjected to ...