Papal nuncio in Syria sees few signs of hope
March 15, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: “The Syrian catastrophe is still the most serious man-made humanitarian disaster since the end of the Second World War,” says Cardinal Mario Zenari, the apostolic nuncio to the war-torn country.
On March 15—a date that marked the 11th anniversary of the beginning of the bloodshed, the cardinal weighed the immense costs of the fighting: at least 500,000 dead, more than 11 million driven from their homes, and a massive exodus particularly of young people, leaving Syria with grim prospects for the future.
“Don’t let hope die,” Cardinal Zenari pleads, lamenting that the world has grown accustomed to the continued fighting in Syria, creating no momentum for peace.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Mar. 17, 2022 4:33 AM ET USA
As the "Arab spring" brought death and destruction to Syria, so now does this same misguided interventionism bring death and destruction to Ukraine. The overthrow of the legitimate government in 2014 by supporters of the current government moved Ukraine in a direction away from the nonaggression agreements made with Russia by the West in 1991 when the Soviet Union ceased to exist. After 7 years of warning the West not to bring NATO forces right to the Russian border,Moscow feels need for defense
