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Cardinal says Syria has been hit with a ‘poverty bomb’

18 September 2020

Rome Newsroom, Sep 18, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- After nearly 10 years of war, the Syrian people have now been hit with a “poverty bomb” amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Vatican diplomat said this week. Cardinal Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio to Syria since 2008, said that many Syrians had died in the country’s long conflict from various types of weapons, “from cluster bombs, to barrel bombs, to missiles launched everywhere.” “However, if there were these bombs before, now there is what I call the poverty bomb: according to United Nations data, this bomb is hitting more than 80% of people, and this is very serious. You can see the effects of hunger, malnutrition of children, above all,” Zenari said in an interview published in L’Osservatore Romano Sept. 18. Syria is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis, according to the United Nations World Food Programme, which estimates that 9.3 million Syrians are food… [...]

Nigerian archbishop builds house for physically challenged girl

10 September 2020

Onitsha, Nigeria, Sep 10, 2020 / 11:41 am (CNA).- Archbishop Valerian Okeke of Onitsha on Tuesday blessed and handed over a house he helped build and furnish for Adaoma Aniwetalu, a physically challenged girl in his local Church. Speaking during Sept. 8 ceremony, Archbishop Okeke said the house was part of the Church’s “commitment towards charity and the need to uplift the burden faced by people especially in this pandemic.” Aniwetalu’s situation was brought to his attention by a religious sister, he said. He then reached out to some well-wishers for financial support. In a Facebook post the bishop said: “I pray to God to come and take possession of this new house of our daughter. May this be a house of blessing, a house of grace and a house of peace. May she live here till when God will do for her more miraculous things in the future, through… [...]

Two religious sisters in Mozambique still missing after Islamist attack

4 September 2020

Rome Newsroom, Sep 4, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Two religious sisters in Mozambique are still unaccounted for three weeks after militants linked to the Islamic State seized control of the port city of Mocimboa da Praia. Sister Inés Ramos, who is over 70, and Sister Eliane da Costa of the congregation of St. Joseph of Chambéry have not been heard from since the rebels attacked their city in early August. The General House of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambéry in Rome told CNA Sept. 4 that the sisters in Mozambique remained missing. “We are hoping that they are still alive but have no means of communication. We have not had any official notification,” Fr. Kwiriwi Fonseca of the Diocese of Pemba in northern Mozambique told Aid to the Church in Need Sept. 2. “If the sisters have returned to the convent, we have no way of knowing… [...]

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