{"id":19355,"date":"2016-12-15T07:52:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=19355"},"modified":"2016-12-15T07:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:52:24","slug":"eu-exhibits-aleppo-childrens-peace-drawings-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/12\/15\/eu-exhibits-aleppo-childrens-peace-drawings-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"EU exhibits Aleppo children\u2019s peace drawings  &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h1>EU exhibits Aleppo children\u2019s Peace drawings<\/h1>\n<p>In the week before the Skype conference with EU politicians, in West Aleppo a group of 25 Christian and Muslim children under the guidance of the Franciscan friar Fr. Ibrahim prepared songs, drawings and special messages of peace.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19363\" style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fr-Hilal-with-some-of-the-Aleppo-drawings-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Belgium, Brussels, December 6, 2016  Fr. Ziad Hilal presenting some samples of the ACN organised Drawings for Peace exhibition at the European Parliament.\" width=\"131\" height=\"197\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Brussels, December 6, 2016<\/strong><br \/><strong>Fr. Ziad Hilal presenting some samples of the ACN organised Drawings for Peace exhibition at the European Parliament.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>European Parliament Vice-President Antonio Tajani working together with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has coordinated a special exhibition of the Aleppo children\u2019s drawings and messages in Brussels. The exhibition is being held in a main hall at the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Among the exhibits is a \u00a0moving poem from 12 year-old Shan in Aleppo describing suffering in war:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am praying, God my country is suffering<br \/> Cold, sadness and darkness, no electricity nor candles.<br \/> A mother is calling with her unheard voice<br \/> to the father who left that morning unsure if he will come back.<br \/> Please, God, do not abandon us to sorrow and hunger<br \/> God, keep your hands with us, our country is suffering.<br \/> Children, like the sunrise, study in the darkness;<br \/> we are waiting for good news covered by mercy,<br \/> hoping to meet in the neighborhood beautiful smiles,<br \/> but find black hearts even darker than carbon.<br \/> They are baptized with blood and we do not even have tears left.<br \/> God, don\u00b4t abandon our suffering country!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Translated from Arabic)<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has offered 18 of the drawings he received during the Syrian Patriarch\u2019s visit in October to be part of an<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19365\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exhibition-of-Syrian-childrens-drawings-at-EU-Parliament-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Belgium, Brussels, December 6, 2016  An selection of drawings and messages gathered from over 1 million children from over 2000 schools in Syria (Homs, Aleppo, Damascus ...) exhibited at the European Parliament.\" width=\"139\" height=\"209\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/><strong>Drawings and messages gathered from over 1 million children\u00a0 in Syria exhibited at the European Parliament.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>exhibition co-sponsored by UNICEF, called \u201cStanding Strong: The Human Faces of the Syrian Crisis,\u201d which is \u00a0also being held at the European Commission headquarters till 15 Dec.<\/p>\n<p>These drawings, alongside ACN photos of Syrian children, will then travel to be exhibited in other EU venues during the first three months of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU exhibits Aleppo children\u2019s Peace drawings In the week before the Skype conference with EU politicians, in West Aleppo a group of 25 Christian and Muslim children under the guidance of the Franciscan friar Fr. 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