June 2014 – “Many churches stand empty, targets for bombardment and desecration. Aleppo, where I have been bishop for 25 years, is devastated. We have become accustomed to the daily dose of death and destruction, but living in such uncertainty and fear exhausts the body and the mind. … Now our faith is under mortal threat, in danger of being driven into extinction, the same pattern we have seen in neighboring Iraq.” – Antoine Audo, Syrian priest and president of Catholic aid charity Caritas
