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Syria Civil War

An entire generation of Syrian children has never known home due to civil war, says UK’s leading Catholic charity

March 14, 2024

With Syria reaching the 13th anniversary of the beginning of its civil war on 15 March, the UK’s leading Catholic charity has highlighted how there is now an entire generation “who have never been able to live in their own country”. CAFOD, the international aid agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales,

ACN UK: After forgotten war, coronavirus risks making Syrians a forgotten people

January 29, 2021

The West has forgotten the people of Syria because of the coronavirus, Sister Annie Demerjian told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in need.

Archbishop of Damascus: Nine dead and 47 injured in ‘rain of mortars’ in Syria

August 27, 2015

Maronite leader said survivors are praying, but added the bombings are "a kind of Russian roulette"

200 Christian refugees moved from Aleppo to Belgium

July 08, 2015

The operation took place over two months and amid great secrecy

David Cameron already is doing something for persecuted Christians – making their plight worse

April 17, 2014

Britain's foreign policy does nothing to help the persecuted Church

Dutch Jesuit priest in Homs killed

April 10, 2014

Fr van der Lugt had chosen to stay in beseiged, starving city

Kidnapped Syrian nuns set free

March 10, 2014

Patriarch confirms women are unharmed after being taken by jihadis last December

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