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October 16, 2024
(Psa 122:6) For the peace of Jerusalem pray: "May those who love you prosper!
NEWS REPORT: Israeli strike hits municipal building in south Lebanon, mayor and five others killed
ACN: ACN aims to raise over 1 million dollars to help Church face crisis in Lebanon
DETROIT CATHOLIC: As Israel's Lebanon campaign escalates, displaced Christians wait for 'miracle to end this misery'
As Israel has escalated its
campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon across a United Nations-drawn
boundary between the two countries, more than a million people have
fled their homes.
Some of them have nowhere to go in
a country already devastated by economic crisis, a political impasse
and the largest number of refugees per capita and per square mile in
the world.
"Lebanon has experienced every
crisis imaginable over the past two decades and this is another one of
those that we have to get through. We are nothing if not resilient,"
Fadi Bejan told OSV News.
Bejan, the country representative
for Pro Terra Sancta, a Catholic organization that supports local
communities and helps in humanitarian emergencies, spoke as the U.N.'s
Security Council expressed "strong concern" Oct. 14 after Israel fired
on and wounded U.N. peacekeepers in the south of the country.
"Whereas before the war our focus
was on providing food and medication to those within a 10-kilometer
(6.2 miles) radius of Beirut, we have had to cast our net wider. The
priority for PTS is now on those who have fled their home whether they
be from Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold (district of Beirut), or a
border town in south Lebanon," Bejan said.
Even before the recent crisis, it
was estimated that more than half of the Lebanese population is living
below the poverty line, "while a shocking 9 out of 10 Syrian refugees
require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs," said the
U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR.
Currently, 1.2 million internally
displaced people add to the 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in the
country and some 11,238 refugees of other nationalities.
"At times of hardship we come
together regardless of our faith. Amidst all the chaos that's what I
cling onto -- the goodness of people in unimaginable circumstances,"
Bejan told OSV News in his office in Beirut.
CONTRASTING COMMENTARIES
America’s Unconditional Support for Israel: A Flawed Policy
Israel is building a new Middle East — one that counters Iranian threat
The
Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Humility
19. Theophilus of holy memory, the bishop of Alexandria, once went to
the mount of Nitria, and a hermit of Nitria came to see him. The bishop
said, 'What have you discovered in your life, abba?' The hermit
answered, 'To blame myself unceasingly.' The bishop said,That is the
only way to follow.'
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