Catholoc hospitals - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 20 Jul 2020 05:41:37 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Catholoc hospitals - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholic hospitals in Syria working to help indigent patients https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/07/20/catholic-hospitals-syria/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:50:22 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=128887 Three Catholic-run hospitals providing life-saving services free of charge to vulnerable Syrians hope to aid some 50,000 patients by the project's end next year. "Institutions in Syria now are having a lot of difficulties … So, this project supporting these hospitals is helping them to go on," said Flavia Chevallard, project coordinator for "Operation Open Read more

Catholic hospitals in Syria working to help indigent patients... Read more]]> Three Catholic-run hospitals providing life-saving services free of charge to vulnerable Syrians hope to aid some 50,000 patients by the project's end next year.

"Institutions in Syria now are having a lot of difficulties … So, this project supporting these hospitals is helping them to go on," said Flavia Chevallard, project coordinator for "Operation Open Hospitals in Syria" implemented by AVSI, a nongovernmental organization founded in Italy in 1972.

The project is the brainchild of Cardinal Mario Zenari, the nuncio to Syria, who in 2016 sought practical ways to support Syrians in the midst of crippling conflict. Read more

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