Middle East and North Africa

Lent 2019 Appeal for health crisis in Gaza

The acute health needs of the most vulnerable communities in the occupied Palestinian territory need $32 million for 2019. There are 900,000 people out of the 1.2 million Palestinians in need of humanitarian health assistance.

New archbishop is symbol of hope in Iraq

A restoration of a bishop in Mosul is so symbolic for Iraq and the Christian community in Ninawa. For many, his appointment is seen as a blessing of hope.

Caritas reports from inside Syria

While many aid agencies are pulling out of the city, Caritas Syria has started its next three-year, €4.1 million project for Aleppo, aimed at reaching 70,000 of its most vulnerable residents.

Life in Syria eight years into the war

Syria reaches a grim anniversary in March: eight years of civil war. After half a million deaths, with 11.6 million people forced from home, the nation is on its knees. Caritas is working inside Syria to help rebuild shattered lives.

Syria’s Share the Journey Solidarity Walk in Ghouta

Caritas Syria walked side by side with scout groups and the secondary school students of Medaa in the destroyed streets of their village in Ghouta.

Interfaith partnership helps displaced families in Syria

The civil war in Syria forced Maram and her family to flee without any possessions. Five years later they’re still homeless and yet to return. Security has improved in the capital, Damascus, and the family’s hometown in the adjoining villages in the Ghouta countryside, but the humanitarian situation remains critical. Winter is on its way ...

Aid to Syria’s Ghouta devastated by longest siege in modern history

Lina’s family has suffered death, hunger, homelessness and been deprived of basic necessities because of Syria’s civil war. They live in Eastern Ghouta, an area that had endured “the longest running siege in modern history”, the UN said in a recent report. In April 2013, pro-government forces encircled what was then a militant-controlled area bordering Damascus, the capital ...

How Caritas helps in Syria

To escape Islamic State militants, Fowziah Daher, a widow and mother of four children, hid alone for several days in a Syrian olive field. She and her family had been seeking refuge at a farm when the militants arrived. She told her children to run away without her. The family had just come on foot ...

Share the journey meal with refugees in Syria: challenges and rewards

Blog by Sandra Awad, communications officer for Caritas Syria Caritas Internationalis recently invited us to organise an “encounter meal” in a community with migrants and/or refugees. It would be part of the Share the Journey campaign which was launched by Pope Francis in 2017 and is focused on providing spaces and opportunities to bring migrants/refugees ...

Vatican convenes ecological leadership summit

Political leaders and grassroots activists from around the world unite to signal urgent need for increased ambition on climate change and sustainability

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Members of Caritas in the Middle East and North Africa work primarily on emergency response, migration, education, development, women empowerment, youth and volunteering, human trafficking and peace building.

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Updates from Middle East & North Africa

Lent 2019 Appeal for health crisis in Gaza

New archbishop is symbol of hope in Iraq

Caritas reports from inside Syria

Life in Syria eight years into the war

Syria’s Share the Journey Solidarity Walk in Ghouta

Interfaith partnership helps displaced families in Syria

Aid to Syria’s Ghouta devastated by longest siege in modern history

How Caritas helps in Syria

Share the journey meal with refugees in Syria: challenges and rewards

Vatican convenes ecological leadership summit

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