Sr. Helen Mary Haigh Provincial of Europe, shared the
text of a talk given by one of our Syrian sisters, Sr. Annie Demerjian. During
October, Sr. Annie was in England, speaking there to various groups on behalf
of her people. An excerpt from her presentation is given below.
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| Sr. Annie Demerjian. Syria |
Iet me tell you that what we are experiencing in Syria,
especially in the city of Aleppo, is indescribable and chilling. All human
values given by God to man in order to live in peace and dignity have been
obliterated from the scene.
We are faced with a broken city where life does not
exist. What Aleppo is going through at all levels did not happen to any other
city, in terms of living, or security. Aleppo has become the ‘city of death and
devastation, destruction and violence’ as we live at the mercy of God between
fear of the unknown and the hope for peace.....
There
is overwhelming despair of life because of the crisis in Aleppo; there familiarity
with death is an everyday experience!
It
hurts to wake up in the wee hours of the morning and hear the sound of rockets
and shells heaped on residential areas, and find yourself among the piles of
rubble and dirt and then having to flee, running everywhere from the intensity
of the fear and panic. ...
We have seen children among the wreckage, instead of
receiving education in the warmth of the school, they face instead the
harshness of life turn on them and make them homeless on the pavements. Every
day we see Syrian children going out, seeking some income, and looking for
their livelihood, ‘Begging’, approaching a man or a woman, afraid of a painful
response. Destiny has made of these kids a generation which does not know its
way, looking for a livelihood in a time where most of the people do not know
the meaning of hunger and oppression, so the only solution for these children
is homelessness. ...
Pope Francis said in a message at the occasion of the
World Day of Peace 2015, ‘We know that God will ask each and every one of us,
What did you do to your brother? The globalization of indifference pressing
down heavily on the lives of many sisters and brothers, require from all of us
to be the makers of the globalization of solidarity and fraternity capable of
giving hope again, and of enabling people to regain the courage to walk through
the problems of our time with new visions that God puts in our hands.’
I carry a message from a people who ask you to be makers
of peace and reconciliation in order to enjoy peace in my country and the whole
world; a peace which is the gift of God to humankind. So, be peacemakers for us
and for our children and for the children of the world.”
If you would like more information, go to http://catholicphilly.com/2016/10/news/world-news/nun
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