Pope Francis donated $170,000 to the Catholic Church in Syria as an aid for the charitable works with the poor. the 17 ecclesiastical circumscriptions would receive $10,000, announced by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches. He was speaking to an assembly of Syrian bishops in Damascius during his visit to the country that goes on now. Syria is the country where more than 350,000 people have been killed since the civil war broke out in 2011.
Cardinal Sandri will meet priests, various leaders, Catholic charities, and religious people in Syria during his visit. On 3 November he will return from Syria.