Repairs to schools, churches, monasteries, a kindergarten and a youth centre are to go ahead after ACN agreed significant additional aid for families made homeless by February’s deadly earthquakes in Syria. ACN announced on 2nd October that it is providing a second tranche of aid to help vital Church-run facilities [...]
In February 2023 a powerful earthquake struck the region of southern Turkey and northern Syria. At least 50,000 people died and a huge number of buildings were destroyed. Among the areas most hard-hit was the city of Aleppo in Syria, already devastated by the civil war in the country. Father [...]
Churches in Syria are pressing ahead with projects to repair homes hit by last month’s devastating earthquakes that affected southern Turkey and northern Syria, claiming the lives of more than 50,000 people. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has committed to providing aid to help Christians return to their [...]
Three weeks after the earthquake there are still dozens of people sheltering in churches and Church-run schools in Aleppo. The first figures regarding the number of houses damaged by the earthquake in Syria indicate 2,500 Christian homes in Aleppo in need of repair. While costs are being calculated and details [...]
Parishes and religious orders are delivering crucial aid provided by a Catholic charity for those who are suffering following the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey where the total dead has now exceeded 47,000. SYRIA / ALEP-LAT 21/00084Meals on Wheels project for elderly of Latin Vicariate in Aleppo. Just [...]
“We are well, thank God. It was frightening, very strong. There is much fear, that is the general feeling, in some cases even panic. And there is good reason to be afraid.” This is how father Hugo Alaniz, a project partner of the international foundation Aid to the Church in [...]
During a visit to the regions affected by the earthquake, the Apostolic Nuncio to Syria says that he saw “a sea of pain”. Days after the earthquake that shook southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing over 30 thousand people, several international aid groups continued to work on rescues in Turkey, [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has just launched an emergency appeal for people in northern Syria desperate for help following a series of devastating earthquakes over the last few days. ACN is appealing for funds to support local Church partners helping those plunged into dire need by the [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is appealing for prayer amid alarming reports of two earthquakes killing more than 1,200 people and causing havoc in north-west Syria and south Turkey. ACN received reports from project partners in Syria about the devastation including news of former project partner Archbishop Emeritus [...]
Shocked and with their houses destroyed or damaged, many families have taken to sleeping in churches, convents, or even hospitals. Faced with yet another tragedy, Syrians ask for an end to sanctions. Syria has been at war for almost 12 years but for many people in Aleppo, and other cities [...]
