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As Syrian refugee crisis grows, Caritas aids families in Lebanon and Jordan

20/07/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria by Caritas Communications

As violence in Syria worsens, Caritas continues to aid refugees as they stream into the neighbouring countries of Jordan and Lebanon. In Jordan, Caritas is distributing food and essential items like diapers to hundreds of Syrian families in Mafraq and Zarqa. Caritas Jordan also arranged a free one-week medical campaign for Syrian refugees to provide ...

Caritas Syria President urges dialogue to end crisis

15/06/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo in Syria and head of Caritas Syria has been in France for meetings with Secours Catholique (Caritas France). He spoke to François Tcherkessoff. Here is an edited version of the interview (translated by Caritas Internationalis). What does the Church leadership say about the recent events? The three patriarchs ...

Pope expresses pain over Syria massacre

30/05/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria by Caritas Communications

The UN says 108 people have been killed in the Syrian town of Houla. Nearly half of them were children. Witnesses and survivors told the UN that most of the victims died as a result of summary executions. The Pope has expressed great pain as a result of the massacre. On Tuesday, Fr Federico Lombardi, ...

Volunteers in Jordan help with influx of Syrian refugees

10/05/2012 Blog, Career, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria, Volunteers by Caritas Communications

By Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Jordan staff “I like to help others,” said Madleen Qandah, a 21 years old mathematics student in Mafraq. She is volunteering with Caritas Jordan as it aids Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their own country. “I just put myself in the refugees’ shoes and treat them how I would like ...

Delivering aid inside Syria

9/05/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

Selim* has been working for Caritas Syria in Aleppo for three months helping people with food and other aid. He says Aleppo has been hit hard by the economic crisis in Syria. The conflict and international sanctions have led to high levels of inflation and unemployment across the country. Caritas helps poor families and especially ...

Syrian church calls for an end to cycle of violence

4/05/2012 Advocacy, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Patrick Nicholson The Catholic Church in Syria has made this powerful statement on the crisis there, where daily violence continues to have a deadly toll and more people are crossing the borders to neighbouring countries. The statement is in French. It’s calling for an end to the violence and especially all forms of intimidation ...

Conflict in Syria

26/04/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Europe, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Peacebuilding, Syria, Turkey by Caritas Communications

An uprising against the Syrian government and the President Bashar al-Assad has left 9000 people dead since fighting broke out in March 2011. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes. Many have sought safety in neighbouring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, others remain in Syria. Conditions within Syria and for the ...

Caritas in Lebanon and Jordan doing more to help Syrian refugees

23/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Patrick Nicholson Syrian refugees continue to flee into neighbouring Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. They’re trying to escape fighting between government and opposition forces that began last March. Caritas members in the region are looking to respond to the growing needs of the refugees. Living conditions are difficult. Hamid* brought his wife and children from ...

Caritas aid reaches Syrian refugees in Lebanon

16/03/2012 Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Refugees, Syria by Caritas Communications

“The situation is bad,” said Fatima*. She had arrived from Syria into Lebanon that morning with five of her seven children. They’d fled from Kosayr, a suburb of Homs that’s currently undergoing heavy shelling as fighting continues between the government and opposition forces. Her husband stayed on while her teenage boys were stopped from leaving. ...

Syrian refugees flee to Lebanon with stories of terror

13/03/2012 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Syria, Lebanon, Middle East & North Africa, Syria by Caritas Communications

By Patrick Nicholson *Mohamed’s son was born a few weeks ago during the battle for Bab Amro, a suburb of the Syrian city of Homs. “The baby was delivered by a dentist,” says the father, in a makeshift clinic that previously been a neighbour’s home. “There wasn’t any medical equipment,” he says. Locals had given ...