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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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