CWN - Addressing a meeting of Catholic charitable agencies involved with the Middle East, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga said that the conflicts in that region have produced “the greatest crisis the world has faced since the Second World War.”
The Honduran cardinal, who is the president of the Caritas International consortium of Catholic aid agencies, said that the group’s first priority should be providing help for the victims of violence. “The challenge is staggering,” he observed.
Cardinal Maradiago reported that 13 million people in Syria are now in “desperate need,” with 3 million of them living as refugees in other countries. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people face extinction in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands are confronted with the devastation of Gaza.
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