{"id":34229,"date":"2019-07-24T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=34229"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:12:52","slug":"pope-francis-writes-assad-expresses-profound-concern-for-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/07\/24\/pope-francis-writes-assad-expresses-profound-concern-for-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis writes Assad, expresses\u00a0profound concern\u00a0for the humanitarian crisis in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pope Francis is \u201cprofoundly concerned\u201d for the humanitarian situation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pope stressed this in a letter that was hand-delivered to Syrian President, Basher Hazef Al-Assad, on July 22,\u00a0by Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardinal Turkson was in Damascus with the Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, Cardinal Mario Zenari and under-secretary of the dicastery, Fr. Nicola Riccardi, and during that time, they met with the president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring the meeting,\u201d revealed a statement by the Holy See Press Office Director, Matteo Bruni, \u201cthe Cardinal Prefect delivered to the Head of State a letter addressed to him by the Holy Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter, he noted, \u201cexpressed the profound concern of His Holiness Pope Francis for the humanitarian situation in Syria, with particular reference to the dramatic conditions of the civilian population in Idlib.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is a ZENIT translation of the Director\u2019s full statement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This morning at Damascus, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, accompanied by Cardinal Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio in Syria, and the Under-Secretary of the said Dicastery, Father Nicola Riccardi, met with President Bashar Hafez al-Assad. During the meeting, the Cardinal Prefect delivered to the Head of State a letter addressed to him by the Holy Father, which expresses the profound concern of His Holiness Pope Francis for the humanitarian situation in Syria, with particular reference to the dramatic conditions of the civilian population in Idlib.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is \u201cprofoundly concerned\u201d for the humanitarian situation in Syria. The Pope stressed this in a letter that was hand-delivered to Syrian President, Basher Hazef Al-Assad, on July 22,\u00a0by Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. 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