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‘What ACN is doing for the Lebanese is truly great,’ says Patriarch
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"Every day we lose thousands of our best engineers, our best doctors, our best teachers, because the loss of value of the Lebanese pound to ...
ACN activates emergency plan for Catholic schools in Lebanon
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“If we don’t act now, this terrible and incessant crisis will lead to thousands of children being left without education, and will encourage even more ...
Scholarships help cement legacy of papal visit to Iraq
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“The CUE model encourages the whole family to stay and not to emigrate; their children will have an excellent education to obtain work and therefore ...
Egyptians love their soccer team, but Christians feel left out
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Among Copts, stories abound of young boys who were turned away from big clubs at trials when it was revealed that they were Christians, either ...
In one of the poorest parts of Lebanon, the Church sustains body and soul
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“For around two years we have been going through a terrible economic crisis in Lebanon. The people are desperate, they need everything. Food, electricity, medicine, ...
Violence against Christian women Part of the war on religious minorities
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"We were able to document that mothers and their children are a growing target group. You are not only removing a single person from the ...
In Lebanon, economic crisis threatens closure of Catholic hospital
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The hospital is in desperate need for money to pay its staff, feed its patients, buy expensive drugs, the prices of which have more than ...
No Christmas lights for Aleppo, but hope is in big supply
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“I thought it was done, destroyed, how could it be restored? It took a lot of effort, and slowly, slowly, the Lord gave us the ...
Syria: ‘They would not let us ring the church bells’
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Moufida recalled how the armed Islamist groups invaded their village. “They took away our livelihood, our money and our homes."
Lebanon: ‘I became a refugee, just like the Child Jesus’
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"“They attacked us with guns, although we were completely defenseless. They killed 15 young people and burned down five houses. Everybody fled. We ran, along ...