Christians are at Risk in the Northern East Syria
«WE ARE THE WEAK LINK BECAUSE WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE» Christians are at risk in the Northern East Syria - a priest reported to ACN. "At least three hundred Christians have left the cities of Ras al-Ain, Derbasiyah, Tall Tamr and a part of al-Malikiyah. We fear that [...]
Bishop Hindo to ACN: “I fear a new exodus of Christians”
Syria: Bishop Hindo to ACN: “I fear a new exodus of Christians” “As always, everyone has their own interests, but it is we Christians who will suffer the consequences.” Speaking with profound bitterness, Emeritus Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo, Syrian-Catholic of Hassaké-Nisibis in the Kurdish area of Syria, was commenting to [...]
Today is a Day of Celebration
Today is a day of celebration: Celebrating the inauguration of the newly restored church of Haret Saraya, destroyed by jihadists in 2012 Marmarita/Königstein. – Evening is falling in the Valley of the Christians. From its high vantage point the Crusader fortress, the Crac des Chevaliers, built in the 11th-12th century, looks [...]
In Aleppo, a teenager drew on his faith to make it through the darkest days of the civil war
Piter Essa, 17, graduated from High School in Aleppo, Syria, this spring. Piter, who is Syriac Orthodox, recounts to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) some of his painful experiences of the fighting of the past eight years: “I’ve survived this awful war, and I live my life like [...]
Summer camps in Syria – “She felt her heart had begun to beat again”
In the course of 2019 the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) is supporting over 40 different projects for summer activities on behalf of the Christian communities in countries where they are a minority, experience discrimination or suffering as a result [...]
A mother, her son killed in the war, finds strength in her faith
Syria: a mother, her son killed in the war, finds strength in her faith: ‘our roots must be planted in God’ Yolla Ghandour, a Syrian-Armenian Catholic and mother of three, lives in Aleppo. She saw some of the worst fighting of the Syrian civil war. She talked to Aid to [...]
Syria: A vocation marked by the resurrection
I was born again after eight years! - the story of Fadi - a Syrian called to the service. Irmina Nockiewicz Almost 8 years after the outbreak of a devastating civil war, Fadi, a young Syrian man, relates to ACN how he heard the call to service. It was the [...]
SYRIA: The Bleeding Wound of Emigration
The number of Christians in Aleppo fell dramatically during the war, from 180,000 before the war to 32,000 today. Joseph Tobji, Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo and shepherd of a small community of about 400 families, spoke with Pierre Macqueron of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). [...]