AsiaNews: The people of Aleppo “are in shock, the schools are closed, children stay at home, shops have lowered their shutters…the streets “have been emptied of cars and people”. Everyone, “avoids having to go out, although this does not mean that homes are safer, because the bombs can strike anywhere”.
A ghost town, battered by war and violence, is what 44 year old Franciscan Fr. Alsabagh Ibrahim describes to AsiaNews. He is the guardian and parish priest of the Latin parish of Aleppo. On the eve of the month of May, he speaks of how the local Church “has decided to dedicate Syria, but especially Aleppo to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of Peace, that she may gift peace to all of us.” More here.
