23 February 2023, The Tablet

Faith, pain and the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

by Marta Luisa Fagnani

Faith, pain and the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

The nuns at Fons Pacis felt the tremors.

 
Cistercian nuns who came to Syria from Italy in 2005 to set up the monastery Fons Pacis in Azeir, a small Maronite Christian village surrounded by Alawite and Sunni villages, have opened their doors to families made homeless by the recent earthquakes / By MARTA LUISA FAGNANI
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