#Earthquake

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…

Caritas Turkey: ghost towns and displaced persons are the new emergency

In this emergency situation the Turkish Bishops’ Conference has made it its mission to “intervene in places where no one…

Sisters of St. Dorothy in the hell of Aleppo: “Out in the streets to give consolation”

“It was raining. It was cold. They all rushed outside: old people, children, young people. We stood there four hours.…

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…

Turkey earthquake. “Father Antuan Ilgit (Iskenderun): “We are staying here with the people as captains of a ship”

Father Antuan Ilgit, Vicar General of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia, reports from Iskenderun (Turkey): “Like a captain who does…

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…

EU Parliament: plenary session in Strasbourg as from today. The floor will discuss the response to the earthquake, Ukraine, and the “Ethics Body”

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

Msgr. Kmetec (president of the Turkish bishops): “It’s a catastrophe. We need your help”

“I’m worried about the children, I’m worried about the women, I’m worried about the hopeless situations. Thousands of people have…