Christians fleeing Syria as conflict continues

(Vatican Radio) With no solution in sight to the Syrian conflict, the Catholic bishop of Aleppo Antoine Audo says Christians continue to leave the country, seeking security and better living standards abroad.
Bishop Audo, who also serves as president of Caritas Syria, says life in the once thriving commercial city has been devastated by the nearly two years of civil war.
The Jesuit bishop of Aleppo was one of 15 Chaldean leaders here in Rome last week attending a synod which elected Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk in Iraq as patriarch of the Eastern rite Church.
He told Vatican Radio’s Manuella Affejee that Caritas is working hard to support the growing numbers of the poor families struggling to survive in the war torn city…

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