Hundreds of Christian and Muslim children in the Syrian city of Aleppo will gather Oct. 6 to pray for the defenseless children that are being slaughtered in their country.
The school children will put their signatures and their fingerprints on an appeal calling on world leaders to stop the constant killing of children, according to Armenian Catholic Archbishop Boutros Marayati.
"But above all, they will pray. They will pray for all of their peers. And we trust in the fact that children's prayer is more powerful than ours," Marayati said.According to Marayati, representatives of the government and the Syrian army met to explain that an appeal would go out to the civilian population in neighborhoods under rebel control. The appeal states that gates will be left open to let people leave dangerous areas and travel to safe zones.
Many civilians left their neighborhoods and were welcomed in other areas that are government controlled by the army, but many had to stay behind.
According to Marayati some residents may not be able to leave due to the appeal's rules.
"In fact, many civilian families left those neighborhoods and were welcomed in areas controlled by the government army, confirming that the appeal had somehow arrived at its destination. For groups arriving, housing facilities were set up for the reception. But it was not a mass evacuation. Perhaps many cannot leave," he said.
"And the appeal also contained an expiration date, and the ultimatum expires in coming days. New blood will be shed if the powers behind the two warring parties do not decide to really put an end to this dirty war," Marayati said.website: www1.cbn.com
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