Fwd: LEBANON: Emergency Appeal 🆘

[June Herridge]

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From: Aid to the Church in Need <a...@acnuk.org>
Date: 5 August 2020 at 18:01:39 GMT+1
To: June Herridge <junelau...@gmail.com>
Subject: LEBANON: Emergency Appeal 🆘
Reply-To: Aid to the Church in Need <a...@acnuk.org>

 “The explosion felt like an atomic bomb with red smoke everywhere and huge damage.”

Image: The explosion in Lebanon yesterday. (Fr Samer Nassif) An emergency help of £226,000 is to be rushed out to Beirut by ACN in the wake of the huge explosion yesterday (4th August). At least 100 people were killed and 4,000 others were injured when 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse exploded. Speaking from Beirut, ACN project partner Father Raymond Abdo told the charity: “The explosion felt like an atomic bomb with red smoke everywhere and huge damage.” ACN Lebanon expert Father Samer Nassif, said that the Christian zone of Beirut was “completely devastated”, with at least 10 churches destroyed, 300,000 people homeless and many others suffering, with livelihoods “totally destroyed” by the blast.   He said: “Yesterday in one second, more damage to the Christian quarter of Beirut was done than throughout the long years of the civil war. “We have to build it again from the ground up.” Aid to the Church in Need is appealing for prayer for the victims and their families.   Read more here HELP US SUPPORT THOSE IN NEED Twitter Facebook Instagram YouTube Copyright © 2020 Aid to the Church in Need, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from Aid to the Church in Need Our mailing address is: Aid to the Church in Need 12-14 Benhill Avenue Sutton, Sutton SM1 4DA United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.