{"id":11186,"date":"2015-10-15T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2015-10-15T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:25:07","slug":"syria-warm-anoraks-needed-for-refugee-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/10\/15\/syria-warm-anoraks-needed-for-refugee-children\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: Warm anoraks needed for refugee children"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Warm anoraks needed for refugee children in Damascus <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does God allow Syria to suffer so much? Why must the innocent die? Why does not God grant us peace, when we still pray for it?\u201c Questions like these are asked of the sisters on a daily basis by the young people in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Marie-Joseph Chanaa is horrified by the suffering she encounters every day. \u201cThe people are deeply traumatised\u201c, she says. \u201cEven the children have seen people terribly burned by the bombings; they have seen bits of bodies lying in the streets. Whenever they hear an explosion, they run to their parents and hide.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Yet Sister Joseph-Marie does not give up, even when others despair: \u201cI always say: \u2018Lord, I am in your hands\u2018. \u00a0I live in order to help these people and give them courage. We sisters say to the people \u2018Always have hope!\u2018 We pray with the people a great deal, for Syria; we pray with them every day \u2013 with the children, with the families, with the sick. God is with us in this trial.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The sisters, who belong to the congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of Besan\u00e7on, are caring for people in Damascus who have been made refugees in their own country by the war. Now winter is approaching, and the sisters have asked ACN for help to buy warm anoraks for some 2,000 children and young people. We are helping with 30,000 Euros.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sister-with-a-mother-and-her-children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11189 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sister-with-a-mother-and-her-children.jpg\" alt=\"Sister-with-a-mother-and-her-children\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm anoraks needed for refugee children in Damascus \u201cWhy does God allow Syria to suffer so much? Why must the innocent die? 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