Mothers and children in Syria forced to scavenge in bins, warns Christian charity christiantoday.com
Mothers and children pushed to the brink of starvation in Syria are so desperate for something to eat they are scavenging in bins, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has warned.
The deepening economic crisis has led to widespread food shortages in the country, which has been brought to its knees by a decade of civil war.
Sister Annie Demerjian told ACN that people are “surviving on one meal a day or less”.
“The explosion of poverty is now worse than in the time of war,” she said…
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- St. Clement of AlexandriaSt. Clement of Alexandria Feast date: Dec 04 Dec. 4 was once the traditional feast day of an early Christian theological author whose legacy is controversial, but who is cited as a saint in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and has been described as such in several addresses of Pope Benedict XVI. The writer […]
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