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For Aleppo vicar, the pope's letter to Assad is an historic gesture", but caution about the city’s future is a mustQuote"We have lived through an urban war,” the vicar said, “and feared the worst. It is clear that even one civilian victim is one too many, but we feared a bloodbath, a real bloodbath in house-to-house combat. Since the offensive [started], there have been 400 deaths, a terrible but still limited number."We hope that the fighting will end soon. "Yesterday, people began celebrating with roads jammed by cars and the streets filled with people. Today it is raining and people are holed up at home, but they see the rain almost as a sign of fate, a purification after years of violence and bombs that rained down from the sky."Aleppo has stories of help and solidarity. "People in the west have handed out food and clothes to civilians fleeing the east,” the prelate explained. “Nearly 100,000 people have fled their homes in recent days. In many homes there is an atmosphere of cooperation and openness, sharing meals. Christians are also helping out. All this is encouraging on the path of reconciliation.:"For the future we demand better, but this war has taught us caution. For this reason, it is better to wait and see what happens in the near future." (DS)http://www.asianews.it/news-en/For-Aleppo-vicar%2C-the-pope%27s-letter-to-Assad-is-an-historic-gesture%22%2C-but-caution-about-the-city%26rsquo%3Bs-future-is-a-must-39390.html
"We have lived through an urban war,” the vicar said, “and feared the worst. It is clear that even one civilian victim is one too many, but we feared a bloodbath, a real bloodbath in house-to-house combat. Since the offensive [started], there have been 400 deaths, a terrible but still limited number."We hope that the fighting will end soon. "Yesterday, people began celebrating with roads jammed by cars and the streets filled with people. Today it is raining and people are holed up at home, but they see the rain almost as a sign of fate, a purification after years of violence and bombs that rained down from the sky."Aleppo has stories of help and solidarity. "People in the west have handed out food and clothes to civilians fleeing the east,” the prelate explained. “Nearly 100,000 people have fled their homes in recent days. In many homes there is an atmosphere of cooperation and openness, sharing meals. Christians are also helping out. All this is encouraging on the path of reconciliation.:"For the future we demand better, but this war has taught us caution. For this reason, it is better to wait and see what happens in the near future." (DS)
