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Italian ecumenical project gives ray of hope to Syrian family

(Vatican Radio) A 7-year-old Syrian girl suffering from a rare form of eye cancer is Friday being treated at the world renowned Bambino Gesu children’s hospital in Rome a day after arriving in Italy with her family.Falak al Hourani, her parents and her younger brother Hussein have come to Rome thanks to a “humanitarian corridor" project initiated by the Rome-based Catholic Sant'Egidio Community and the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy.Listen:  The al Hourani family fled their home in Homs, nearly three years ago due to the conflict engulfing Syria and went to Tripoli, in northern Lebanon.The family’s arrival in Italy is the first of an estimated 1,000 refugees who are being brought to the country in an ecumenical project aimed at deterring people from making the perilous journey by sea.Speaking to Vatican Radio about the family and the project, Sant'Egidio’s Cesare Zucconi explained that, “the Churches together wi...

(Vatican Radio) A 7-year-old Syrian girl suffering from a rare form of eye cancer is Friday being treated at the world renowned Bambino Gesu children’s hospital in Rome a day after arriving in Italy with her family.

Falak al Hourani, her parents and her younger brother Hussein have come to Rome thanks to a “humanitarian corridor" project initiated by the Rome-based Catholic Sant'Egidio Community and the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy.

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The al Hourani family fled their home in Homs, nearly three years ago due to the conflict engulfing Syria and went to Tripoli, in northern Lebanon.

The family’s arrival in Italy is the first of an estimated 1,000 refugees who are being brought to the country in an ecumenical project aimed at deterring people from making the perilous journey by sea.

Speaking to Vatican Radio about the family and the project, Sant'Egidio’s Cesare Zucconi explained that, “the Churches together with the Italian government is issuing, for the first two years up to one thousand humanitarian visas, so up to one thousand people, more or less, will come from Lebanon, Morocco and Ethiopia in the next month."

Regarding the plight of the family, Mr Zucconi said the family had been living in bad conditions and had no money, just like many of the thousands of other refugees that have fled to Lebanon from Syria.

The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR has welcomed the initiative, one of a number of private sponsorships helping refugees to rebuild there lives.

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