Middle East & North Africa Archives - Page 34 of 44

Pope Benedict calls for Syrian ceasefire

7/01/2013 Advocacy, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria by Caritas Communications

Pope Benedict has called for a ceasefire in Syria and for the international community to engage in a constructive dialogue. In an address to the Holy See’s diplomatic corps, Pope Benedict called on diplomats “to resolve the numerous conflicts causing bloodshed in our human family, beginning with that privileged region in God’s plan, the Middle ...

Life is hard for Syrian refugees in the Lebanese winter

4/01/2013 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Marina Bellot, Secours Catholique/Caritas France Life is increasingly difficult for Syrian refugees in Lebanon now winter has come. However, Caritas Lebanon is by their side. Syrians who cross the border to Lebanon are looking for one thing for themselves and their families : to live in peace. Some 132,000 Syrian refugees have been registered by ...

Caritas Turkey: side by side with Syrian refugees

21/12/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Europe, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria, Turkey by Caritas Communications

By Caritas Turkey There are tens of thousands Syrian refugee families living outside the tent camps along the Syria-Turkey border. This is a number increasing very fast day by day. About an hour far from Istanbul, some Syrian refugee families live in poor and crowded housing conditions. Ali, a 13 year old young boy, is ...

Caritas Turkey supporting Syrian refugees

20/12/2012 Europe, Middle East & North Africa, News, Press Release, Turkey by Caritas Communications

Caritas is launching a programme in the New Year to help Syrian refugees who have fled over the border to Turkey. Official figures show there are over 120,000 Syrians in refugee camps in south and southeastern Turkey, but tens of thousands more have not been registered yet. Camps are filled to capacity and the number ...

Syria: “A tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes”

19/12/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cfPwWePuqI&list=UUN7MvrHoSqI5RjV-urE1usw&index=1] Michel Roy, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, has appealed to world leaders to get involved politically and diplomatically in the world’s worst humanitarian crises. He singled out the conflict in Syria as needing particular attention from the international community: “What is happening in Syria is a big tragedy which is unfolding in front of ...

Helping Syrians out of the cold

19/12/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Communications

Caritas is calling for donations to help those struggling as a result of the war in Syria. Families who have lost homes and livelihoods need urgent help, especially as winter makes their lives even more difficult.

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 ...

Aleppo suffers with no end in sight to Syria crisis

28/11/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

Read in French “Everything is enveloped by a sense of ruin and decay,” says Bishop Antoine Audo, Chaldean bishop of Aleppo and president of Caritas Syria. “In Aleppo, there are hundreds of thousands of displaced people crammed into schools and makeshift camps. There are 5,000 people who sleep outside in the gardens of the university ...

Post-war Gaza: What have we learned?

22/11/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Palestine, Jerusalem, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding by Caritas Communications

Harout Bedrossian, communications officer for Caritas Jerusalem Finally it is quiet today. Last night’s ceasefire between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel put an end to a week of brutal warfare which caused suffering on both sides of the border.

Syria Crisis: More than just a quilt

21/11/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Dana Shahin, Caritas Jordan Fatima is a widow who recently fled the conflict in Syria to seek refuge in Jordan. She came to the Caritas Jordan centre in Mafraq where she would be able to receive essential help. Once she’d registered with a Caritas staff member, she headed over to the volunteer’s desk to ...