Christians are speaking about the aftermath of the earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria a few weeks ago leaving at least 44,000 people dead.
Abdallah is pastor of the Alliance Church in Aleppo, one of the few regions still controlled by opponents of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. He said that, even before the earthquake, people were living in economic crisis, unable to afford their basic needs due to inflation and constantly rising prices. Afterwards, with many buildings destroyed, forcing people to live in the streets in freezing weather, it became much worse.
The main needs are for shelter, warmth, medicines and food. But getting international aid in is itself difficult, as the necessary state approvals are taking a long time to come through.
