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from Sr. Clare Nolan:
Sr. Gayle Lwanga
National Coordinator
National Advocacy Center of the
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
504 Hexton Hill Rd.
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Ph: 301-622-6838
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info@gsadvocacy.org
Cc: shalini@buonpastoreint.org
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: More on Lebanon, GS
This first note is from the GS
provincail in Leb/Syria:
Thank you ,dear Clare, for your
prayer..Yes,our people is
suffering..we
don't yet finish our calvary. !
The warplanes are striking the whole
Lebanon without stopping... fires
are everywhere .
We don't understand what is this
blind politic sowing death in Middle
East,and specially in Lebanon?!
Love
Souhaila bp_prov@dm.net.lb
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this is from Hiam, written Friday,
before the worst of the weekend
bombings....
Dear Clare, (sorry for my english
mistakes)
Thank you for your solidarity and
your prayers for my country. The
situation still very bad. Israel
continues attacks and last night
more bridges were destroyed; the
main airport is destoyed and so many
roads are closed....Lebanon is like
isolated from all the region.
Thousands of tourits left the
country to Syria....Hundred of
Lebanese families left their houses
to other safer places, many of them
are staying in schools with their
children, waiting for food and
help....all the projects are
stopped..no electricity in some
places....people in other places are
buying food, thinking of their kids
....
I'm in a region were Israel attacks
a big bridge that units Beirut with
Damascus. Hearing all the bombs is
very scaring ; we're living the war
again, and this is very sad. Very
depressing to see and to live all
this violence - so unfair ! we don't
even understand why the USA didin't
accept to support our people by
asking Israel to stop this war
againt civilians....why so many
vicitms?! how come that the UN can't
stop this war unjustifiable ?! ?????
and so many questions that we're
asking....
I met some parents who shared me
their anxiety: they don't want their
kids to live all what we had to live
many years ago. One of our employees
told me this morning that her
daughter - 7 years- couldn't sleep
all night, she thought that somebody
is coming to kill her and her
family- as she had watched on TV the
night before.....etc, etc...very
depressing also so see our sisters
scared to live again the dark days
of war.... two of our sisters had
came from Syria to live the retreat
with us in Hammana, they left in the
morning to go back to their country,
very scared to stay here, far from
their families - very worried about
them....the retreat is cancelled, as
so many things in the country...
We all are praying that all this
will stop...we're thinking of every
family in Lebanon and all the
region...Please keep us in your
prayers !
Peace and peace ! srhiam@hotmail.com
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To GS USA:
Please consider contacting your
Senators, State Dept. (Condy R.),
and Pres Bush to appeal to put a
stop to this horrible violence. USA
pressure on Israel is the only thing
that will restrain Israel.
Congregation of the Sisters of the
Good Shepherd
an NGO in special consultative
status with ECOSOC, United Nations
"Our commitment to reconciliation
demands that we promote justice and
peaceā€¦"
_________________________
Clare Nolan, NGO representative
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
211 East 43rd St., Room 302
New York, NY 10017
Ph/Fx: 212 599
2711
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