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Temperature drop in Lebanon leaving Syrian refugees out in cold

14/12/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Jos de Voogd, Bekaa Valley The news this week is that more than 500,000 Syrian refugees have been registered by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the region, and the numbers are climbing by more than 3,000 per week as the conflict escaltes. Lebanon is the smallest of Syria’s neighbouring countries and bears one ...

Syrie : une équipe pluridisciplinaire soigne des enfants infirmes

20/11/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Français, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria by Caritas Communications

Par Secours Catholique À Damas, le centre de soins pour enfants infirmes moteurs cérébraux (IMC) reste ouvert, en dépit des évènements. Il offre à 70 enfants atteints de paralysie cérébrale une prise en charge thérapeutique favorisant leur développement. Le centre, créé par l’association Terre des hommes Syrie, veut aussi former des personnels locaux pour prendre ...

La crise des réfugiés syriens: La mission du cardinal Sarah au Liban

9/11/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Français, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria by Caritas Communications

Par Caritas Lebanon “Je continue à suivre avec grande attention la situation tragique du conflit violent en Syrie, où les combats n’ont pas cessé, et chaque jour le nombre de victimes augmente, accompagné de la souffrance des civils, spécialement ceux qui ont été forcés à abandonner leurs maisons ». Par ces mots, le Saint Père ...

Syrian crisis: Tough times ahead for refugees

8/11/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Europe, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria, Turkey by Caritas Communications

“We had normal lives. We had our own business. We had beautiful houses…it’s all gone, it has been destroyed and burned during the war and now I live in this tent.” Salwa is one of the 100,000 Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon. She lives in a camp in the Bekaa Valley. The rickety tent she ...

Life after Syria

25/10/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

“I thank Caritas every day for the assistance we received” Three months ago, Sanaa gave birth alone in her house, just a few days after arriving in Lebanon from Syria. She, her husband and their two young children ran away from heavy shelling .They are from Hama and did not know anyone in Lebanon. “We ...

Syria refugee crisis

25/10/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Europe, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria, Turkey by Caritas Communications

While international efforts are made to bring about a ceasefire in Syria, refugees continue to flood over the border into neighbouring countries. Up to 360,000 have fled Syria as a result of the ongoing conflict there. They may have lost family members in the violence or been separated from them. They leave behind their homes ...

100,000 Syrians in Lebanon face hardship as winter looms

24/10/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

As the fighting intensifies throughout Syria, thousands of refugees continue to pour over the border. According to the latest figures from UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), there are 100,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon registered and over double that figure not registered. “I see more people and more despair,” says Hombline Dulière, a social worker for ...

Pope presence in Lebanon lit candle for peace

25/09/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

Pope Benedict XVI said he had gone to Lebanon and to the Middle East as a “pilgrim of peace”. Over the next three days, he would return to the same theme of peace in the troubled region in every speech he delivered. President of Caritas Lebanon Father Simon Faddoul, reflecting on the visit, said, “The ...

Syrian refugees in Lebabon: A Caritas Lebanon film

12/09/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

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Syrian refugees: ‘Caritas gave us hope’

5/09/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Shahera Khader Maria Abou Diman, a 28-year-old social worker in charge of Caritas Lebanon’s center in Taalabaya (Bekaa Valley), sits outside her office on a plastic white chair. Around her are faces filled with anxiety, hunger and exhaustion. An 80-year-old woman stands directly beside her. She hands Abou Diman her I.D. Her hands, filled ...