Al-Yarmouk Youth Sport Center
By Josué Villalón Al-Yarmouk Youth Sport Center: helping to strengthen faith and hope through sport in Aleppo The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is supporting a project for the rebuilding of a multipurpose sports centre for the Armenian Christian community “The area of East Aleppo has [...]
St. Louis Hospital: Aleppo’s Wounds are Healing
by Josue Villalón The foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has granted 250,000 euros to the facility to improve its medical care. A picture on the wall depicts the word “peace” – pieced together using bullet casings picked up off the streets. St. Louis Hospital, which is run [...]
Summer Camps: “Your generosity is helping us to realise that we are not alone.”
by Josué Villalón Summer camps for young people and families from Aleppo. “Your generosity is helping us to realise that we are not alone.” It is six months now since the bombs stopped falling on the city of Aleppo in Syria. Although in the distance, at night time, you can [...]
The people in Aleppo are finally looking forward to Easter again
Eva-Maria Kolmann The last few Easters were sad ones for the people of Aleppo. Good Friday was ever present, the light of the resurrection seemed far away. Only last year, Sister Annie Demerjian said to the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), “Our children get coffins for [...]
Easter Prayer for Syria
We come today to offer you our brothers and sisters in Syria We bring them to your merciful Heart... begging you to give them your peace, which they have lacked for years. You suffered humiliation and insult You suffered displacement and expulsion You suffered fear and terror These are all [...]
Christ’s Bounty in Damascus
By Archbishop Samir Nassar BEHIND the scenes, quietly and discreetly, 82 women religious belonging to various congregations are serving the Church in Damascus. They are the great force, which, drawing strength from the breath of the Holy Spirit, gives life to charisms of the Gospel in a country torn apart [...]
“A Drop of Milk”: ACN urgent request for help to the children in Aleppo
Maria Lozano After East Aleppo has been liberated there is a certain peace in the city and people are coming back home. The destruction and lack of structures are vast, the needs huge: food basket, fuel for heating their houses and electricity. Since the start of the conflict, the pontifical [...]