Aleppo’s Christians are losing hope, says bishop

May 19, 2015

The Chaldean Catholic bishop of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, said that the Christians remaining there are losing hope.

“Now our situation is very bad, very difficult,” Bishop Antoine Audo, SJ, said in an interview with Catholic News Service. “We are without electricity, without (running) water.”

“80% of people in Aleppo are without jobs. So they don't have any money to survive,” he added.

Noting that two-thirds of Aleppo’s 150,000 Christians have left the city, Bishop Audo said that “we have everyday bombings. I can have a bomb on my street, my cathedral, my bishopric, on the schools. We don’t know why and where.”

 

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Further information:

• Exhaustion, no hope: Bishop says life in Syria needs 'attitude of faith' (CNS)