We reject violence says Franciscan friar in Aleppo

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 2 - Franciscan friars reject any form of violence and have a purely humanitarian mission, Father Bahjat Karakach, the head of the order in Aleppo, told ANSA on Monday, one day after the Franciscan complex of the Holy Land College in the Syrian city was severely damaged by a Russian air raid.
    "We Franciscans reject any form of violence and, as everyone knows, our mission is of a purely humanitarian nature", Father Karakach told ANSA.
    For this reason, "the College's friars have returned there to make bread.
    "Here, in the city centre, our soup kitchen has resumed work, distributing over 1,000 meals", he said.
    "The situation in the city is tense, especially after another air raid this morning in a nearby area", he said.
    "Burying the dead is starting to be a problem, because the area of the cemetery has become dangerous", said the Franciscan friar. (ANSA).