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John Paul II Foundation / Posts tagged "Lebanon"

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Magazine, News
April 8, 2025

Not one, but multiple overlapping crises are gripping the Middle East, putting millions of people to the test. Famine, conflict and forced migration have made food insecurity chronic. In Gaza, 85 percent of the population struggles to feed itself; in Iraq, 40 percent of arable land is threatened by desertification. Political instability has made the Middle East the macro-region with the highest number of displaced people in the world. For example, Lebanon is home to more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, despite its collapsing economy; in Palestine, 1.7 million people have lost their homes. In addition to the basic rights to nutrition and housing, the right to education has also taken a back seat. In Lebanon, many schools have closed, leaving 30 percent of school-age refugees uneducated. In Iraq, by contrast, a lack of teachers and funding makes access to schooling even more difficult. People with disabilities remain on the margins: less than 2 percent of...

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Magazine, News
April 8, 2025

In Lebanon, where agricultural power is concentrated in the hands of a few, the John Paul II Foundation puts people back at the center: farmers are once again given the right to be protagonists of their own future. Our growth model seeks to help farmers in the poorest areas not only to improve productivity and make production chains more efficient, but aims for real structural change in order to promote their autonomy and inclusion in markets. The Middle East crisis is threatening the survival of Lebanese small farmers. Without direct access to markets, they are forced to sell their products through middlemen who impose unfair and illegal conditions. In this way they risk becoming the fragile link in the chain and becoming trapped in a perpetual state of vulnerability. Food insecurity has reached alarming levels: according to the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, 1.65 million people...

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Magazine, News
October 9, 2024

"In Lebanon, the situation is very serious. After the explosion of the pagers, which affected more than 2,800 people, we are for all intents and purposes back at war." Bishop Cesar calls the new escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanese territory a huge tragedy, highlighting how this new drama adds to the difficulties Lebanon has been facing for some time now. Nearly 1,000 dead, more than a million displaced, schools closed and stormed by internally displaced persons, all testify to the enormous suffering of an already battered people who needed no further heartbreak. "We are living through a very difficult time, and we are still unable to come to grips with it," the bishop reflects. The explosions are affecting innocent civilians, and in such a situation one cannot distinguish between people, regardless of personal opinions about Hezbollah or the conflict against Israel. The war comes in an already dramatic situation: there is the political crisis, with a state that for almost two years...

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