Iconographer fled war in Syria and was embraced by a local parish, gives away Last Supper in thanks
Iconic gift: Murhaf Obeid wrote this icon, The Last Supper, in Lebanon before coming to Australia as a refugee from ...
Iconic gift: Murhaf Obeid wrote this icon, The Last Supper, in Lebanon before coming to Australia as a refugee from ...
Happy life: Bahiya and Adnan Al Mhanna and their sons Eilia and Emil are living in Brisbane after being forced ...
Rebuilding slowly: Benjamin Blanchard is the co-founder of SOS Chretiens d'Orient, a non-government organisation rebuilding the lives of Christians in ...
From Aleppo to Toowoomba: Maher and Nesrin Khoury. TOOWOOMBA is welcoming the stranger – offering a helping hand and a ...
Dinner crowd: Happy diners at the end of the evening at The Welcome Dinner Project community dinner at SANDBAG in ...
Crisis: Syrian girls walk near garbage inside an informal refugee camp in Zahle, Lebanon. Photo: CNSFIVE years after the Syrian ...
Helping together: MDA board vice-chairman Peter Forday (right) joins Work and Welcome program supporters and organisers to cut a cake ...
Byzantine tradition: Melkite Eparch of Australia and New Zealand Bishop Robert Rabbat presides at Mass at St Clement’s, South Brisbane. ...
New home: Afghani refugee Asadullah Salezadah at home in Brisbane with one his daughters Narghis, 7.THE minute former Prime Minister ...
Hope: Syrian refugee children covered with dust arrive at the Jordanian border with Syria and Iraq, near the town of ...
Offering hope: A migrant from Syria cries as she stands with her children on a field after crossing into ...
By Peter Bugden Desperate: A young Syrian refugee girl cries after arriving at the Turkish-border city of Sanliurfa on June ...
Rebuilding: Fr Douglas Bazi, with a group of children in front of one of the pre-fabricated schools being constructed last ...
Children suffer: A Syrian girl looks out from a UNICEF tent in an informal settlement near Amman, Jordan, last Saturday ...
Prayers for peace: Iraqi Christians attend Mass at a church in Baghdad on March 1. Christian organisations have begun funnelling ...
Evacuating: A member of the Kurdish Security Forces holds an injured civilian to evacuate him in Tal Tamar, Syria, on ...
Safe haven: A displaced Syrian girl finds temporary shelter at a school in Damascus, Syria, on February 23.Photo: CNS/Youssef Badawi, ...
More refugees: Syrian refugees warm themselves around a fire on December 3 in Ankara, Turkey. About 400 families fled from ...
Patriarch Louis Sako: "I would like to express my pain and the pain of your Christian brothers and sisters in ...
Fleeing: Syrian residents sit along a road near Damascus after fleeing their homes following clashes between opposition fighters and forces ...
By John Newton and John Pontifex of ACN A SERIES of new emergency aid packages have been rushed through by ...
AFTER weeks with no word from Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, an Italian priest who worked for decades in Syria, Italian ...
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