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 ...
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Syrian refugee family who were followed by death find happiness in Brisbane
Happy life: Bahiya and Adnan Al Mhanna and their sons Eilia and Emil are living in ...
French Catholic who started charity to rebuild cities in the Middle East moved by persecuted Christians
Rebuilding slowly: Benjamin Blanchard is the co-founder of SOS Chretiens d'Orient, a non-government organisation rebuilding the ...
Refugees resettled into Queensland’s country towns are finding new life and steady employment
From Aleppo to Toowoomba: Maher and Nesrin Khoury. TOOWOOMBA is welcoming the stranger – offering a ...
Northside parish welcomes newly arrived Syrian and Iraqi families to dinner
Dinner crowd: Happy diners at the end of the evening at The Welcome Dinner Project community ...
Seventy-five per cent of Syrian population live in poverty
Crisis: Syrian girls walk near garbage inside an informal refugee camp in Zahle, Lebanon. Photo: CNSFIVE ...
Brisbane communities ready to give jobs to incoming Syrian refugees
Helping together: MDA board vice-chairman Peter Forday (right) joins Work and Welcome program supporters and organisers ...
Melkite leader tells Brisbane Lebanese and Syrian Catholics to “never give up hope” despite war
Byzantine tradition: Melkite Eparch of Australia and New Zealand Bishop Robert Rabbat presides at Mass at ...
Brisbane parishes primed to welcome Syrian refugees
New home: Afghani refugee Asadullah Salezadah at home in Brisbane with one his daughters Narghis, 7.THE ...
Brisbane archdiocese to care for 100 Syrian refugee families
Hope: Syrian refugee children covered with dust arrive at the Jordanian border with Syria and Iraq, ...
St Vincent de Paul Society will welcome Syrian refugees
Offering hope: A migrant from Syria cries as she stands with her children on a field ...
Australian Melkite bishop makes plea on behalf of people of Syria
By Peter Bugden Desperate: A young Syrian refugee girl cries after arriving at the Turkish-border city of ...
Refugees recall horror
Rebuilding: Fr Douglas Bazi, with a group of children in front of one of the pre-fabricated ...
Syrian children risk becoming ‘lost generation’, Vatican official says
Children suffer: A Syrian girl looks out from a UNICEF tent in an informal settlement near ...
Assyrian Christians released, but many concerned for those still held
Prayers for peace: Iraqi Christians attend Mass at a church in Baghdad on March 1. Christian ...
‘Islamic State’ begins executing seized Christians
Evacuating: A member of the Kurdish Security Forces holds an injured civilian to evacuate him in ...
Terror escalates for Syria’s Christians
Safe haven: A displaced Syrian girl finds temporary shelter at a school in Damascus, Syria, on ...
Islamic State captures Christian communities in Syria
More refugees: Syrian refugees warm themselves around a fire on December 3 in Ankara, Turkey. About ...
Chaldean patriarch urges moderate Muslims to challenge extremist acts
Patriarch Louis Sako: "I would like to express my pain and the pain of your Christian ...
Charities serving in Syria to meet at the Vatican
Fleeing: Syrian residents sit along a road near Damascus after fleeing their homes following clashes between ...
Fresh aid for Syrians as winter bites deep
By John Newton and John Pontifex of ACN A SERIES of new emergency aid packages have been rushed through by ...
Jesuit kidnapped in Syria
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