In all, more than 5,800 needy families are being helped through the ACN-funded initiative—in cooperation with CNEWA and Caritas Lebanon—at several distribution centers in areas of Beirut affected by the August 4 catastrophic explosion.
The Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary serve the needy in Beirut, where the possibility of a famine has become very real.
The invasion of ISIS in 2014 triggered a mass exodus of the region's Christians.
Aid to the Church in Need talks to Melkite Archbishop Georges Bacouni of Beirut about the threat to Christianity in Lebanon.
