Support Emergency Relief in the Holy Land
Israel has ended its cease-fire in Gaza, blocking critical humanitarian aid, displacing tens of thousands, evacuating portions in northern Gaza and seizing land. More than 300 children have been killed since Israel launched a new offensive, reported UNICEF.
Up to 60,000 people — many of them children, women and the elderly, innocent people of all faiths — are now dead.
Most the enclave’s survivors, some 1.9 million people, have been uprooted and displaced from one unsafe place to another. Their homes have been destroyed and now the debris of entire neighborhoods have been bulldozed.
Gaza is in shambles. And the lives of its people, most of whom are impoverished, have been devastated, indelibly.
The Christian community in Gaza is tiny, and it has not been spared the horrors of vengeance and violence. Yet the Gospel compels believers to respond, and Gaza’s Christians are doing just that.
You can join CNEWA-Pontifical Mission’s efforts to support the church in Gaza respond to the needs of the community. Your gift will help us procure food packages and drinking water through the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Porphyrios; secure vaccines and care for women and their children through the Near East Council Churches’ clinics, now mobile efforts since the destruction of the clinics; rush medicines to Al Ahli Arab Hospital, one of the only remaining functioning hospitals in Gaza; and support psychological counseling and support to war-weary people ravaged by displacement, destruction and death.
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