Homs sweet Homs for Syrian priests

Damaged houses are seen in Homs in central Syria, Feb. 8.
(CNS photo/Mulham Alnader/handout via Reuters)

Catholic News Service reports that Syrian Catholics will have their clergy with them, even as the city continues to implode over the country's uprising:

Some priests have decided to stay in battle-scarred Homs, Syria, even as government forces intensified their strikes against the heart of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, said the Vatican's nuncio to Syria.

Archbishop Mario Zenari told Catholic News Service in an email Feb. 9 that he had been in almost daily contact with priests in Homs and that "with respect to their safety, the situation is, in certain respects, uncertain."

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