SW News: Aid to the Church in Need, have unveiled a three-pronged approach to helping those most badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon’s Zahleh region and Bekaa Valley. The eastern territories are among the poorest in Middle Eastern country and are home to many refugees from the civil war in neighboring Syria. Now Aid to the Church in need is creating a COVID-19 test center in the Tel Chiha hospital in the city of Zaleh. The hospital is an apostolate of the Greek Melkite Archdiocese of Zaleh and Furzal. Second, Aid to the Church in Need will help supply urgent basic necessities, including hygiene articles and food parcels, to 2000 of the neediest families in the region. That’s in response to a request by the Greek Melkite Archbishop Issam John Darwish of Zaleh.  Lastly, Aid to the Church in Need aid project will support 100 families in the parishes of the Maronite Diocese of Baalbek and Deir el-Ahmar. Both the Greek Melkite Church and the Maronite Church are Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the See of Rome.

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