Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: German Catholic Church, special collection to support relief efforts for victims on second Sunday of Lent

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Fr Bahjat (parish priest Aleppo), more tremors last night. “It’s a tragedy, we have to restart from scratch”

Two weeks after the earthquake of February 6, the nightmare continues. Two more tremors of magnitude 6.4 and 5.8 last…

Turkey – Syria earthquake. Msgr. Marayati (Armenians): “It is not the earthquake that kills, but human misbehaviour”

“Do not forget us”. Msgr. Boutros Marayati, Archbishop of Aleppo of the Catholic Armenians in Syria entrusted his plea to…

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Aleppo,  first-hand account of Archbishop Jeanbart “it’s a miracle that I’m alive”

Speaking to SIR from Aleppo, Msgr. Jeanbart, Archbishop Emeritus of the Melkite Greek Catholics, recounts the traumatic moments of last…

Syria earthquake: Aleppo’s quake survivors

A feeling of despair prevails among Aleppo’s earthquake survivors. They walk among the rubble of their homes, trying to salvage…

Turkey and Syria earthquake: after the quake, fighting over aid blocked by regime and rebels. Alarm over orphans.

After the earthquake, there is fighting over aid involving the Assad Regime and the rebels who govern the Idlib area.…

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: 100 thousand euros from the Croatian Bishops’ Conference and two truckloads of aids. Caritas campaigns in Bosnia Herzegovina and Bulgaria

Turkey – Syria earthquake: Bertogli (Antakya), “Now the priority is to survive”

The Capuchin friars of Antakya and Mersin offered beds and food to survivors of the February 6 earthquake. The testimony…

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: Diocese of Pozega (Croatia), Solidarity Sunday for those hit by quake. Caritas, collections all over the country

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: the EU mobilises 1185 rescuers via the Civil Protection

Turkey-Syria quake: EU civil protection, ten search and rescue teams mobilised