April 6, 2024
This month I hope to have some new pictures from some of our friends in the South. You are probably well informed by the media as the situation deteriorates in both the north and the south.
In March we had hoped to partner with Pontifical Mission which works in the north as well as the Latin Patriarchate. We have succeeded in doing this now. They serve 250 street people who did not flee to the South at the beginning weeks of the war with the majority of the refugees. They have been cut off from food and water for over a month. Maybe you have seen the various ways they have tried to get food to the population that remains there. Pontifical Mission who has an office and staff in this area has been able to do get them water and feed them for several weeks now. They are saving lives. We hope to continue helping them as long as our funding permits us to do it.
If you are following the news you have probably seen that when the Shaifa Hospital was taken over 300 people mostly children were found dead in the rubble that remained. Homes around the hospital were burnt with the residences within. Eight people who cooked for the World Central Kitchen were killed while traveling in a van, perhaps you have also seen photos of this reality. There is no quick end to this war and we hope that you have the means to help us. Your prayers are greatly appreciated so that a way is found for a peaceful solution for our brothers and sisters as they live through this nightmare.
