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Aid agencies warn of Yemen’s health care collapse, famine risk
By DALE GAVLAK, Catholic News Service
Published June 17, 2020CAFOD and other agencies warn that Yemen’s health care system, ravaged by five years of civil war, is collapsing, while its people risk famine as the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country struggles with the coronavirus.
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Syrian refugees’ reactions mixed to airstrikes against Islamic State
By DALE GAVLAK, Catholic News Service
Published October 2, 2014AMMAN, Jordan (CNS)—Ask Syrian refugees sheltering in neighboring Jordan about the advent of U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State militants in their homeland, and the reactions will be mixed. Some welcome the surprise military intervention, saying it could lead to ending the nearly 4-year-old war in Syria and diminish the power of Islamic State fighters and […] Full Story
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Gazans, aid workers wait to see if truce will be renewed
By DALE GAVLAK, Catholic News Service
Published August 21, 2014AMMAN, Jordan (CNS)—Humanitarians and the people of the Gaza Strip are apprehensive about whether there will be a renewal of the truce between Israel and the militant Hamas, said a U.S. Catholic aid official. “There’s a lot of hope that the airstrikes and rockets will not start again after Tuesday midnight because of such a […] Full Story
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At River Jordan, pope meets suffering, speaks against arms trade
By DALE GAVLAK, Catholic News Service
Published May 29, 2014AMMAN, Jordan (CNS)—Jordan’s powerful and marginalized joined together at the banks of the River Jordan to welcome Pope Francis at the site believed to be where Jesus was baptized. Jordan’s King Abdullah II, his wife, Queen Rania, and Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal, the monarch’s personal representative and special adviser on religious matters, welcomed […] Full Story
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Christian, Muslim leaders examine challenges of Arab Christians
By DALE GAVLAK, Catholic News Service
Published September 12, 2013AMMAN, Jordan (CNS)—For decades, Arab Christians have been fleeing the Holy Land and the rest of the Middle East in droves, mainly because of violence. Within the past two-and-a-half years, some 450,000 Christians are believed to be among the 2 million people who have fled the civil war in Syria, an ancient land of historic […] Full Story