The Voice of the suffering in Middle East
With ACN support, Churches rebuild quake-hit houses in Syria
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has committed to providing more than US$550,000 in aid to help Christians return to their apartments and houses, and support families with rent for temporary accommodation in the meantime.
ACN to pay rent for victims of earthquake in Syria
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At least 60 buildings in Aleppo collapsed in the earthquake but the number of houses that may need to be razed will probably in the hundreds.
Synod in the Middle East can be “a new spring for the Church”
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" How do we face the social problems? Our people have become very poor. How can we face the political problems? We live these cries in all the Arab countries and each country has its own physiognomy of problems.
Syria: Aleppo trembles again, as the Church doubles down on efforts to help the population
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" Everybody was screaming, they should have exited the house, but everybody stayed put, so I stayed with them. I crouched under a beam and prayed, begging God to have mercy."
ACN representative: “The world must not forget Syria”
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"A 15-year-old boy told me he only had one wish: to take life back to how it was before the war. After 12 years of war, Covid, sanctions, and the collapse of the currency, this latest disaster is more than many people can bear,” he said.
Syria earthquake: ‘less than one minute was worse than 12 years of war’
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"They use many different expressions to express the 12-year war. But if you ask them about the earthquake that they were exposed to, the answer is just one word: horror."
