Catholic Relief Services Chairman Bishop Mansour wants to share agency’s work more widely among Catholics
Mansour Cites Group’s Humanitarian Work in the Middle East
The humanitarian work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its partner agencies directed toward refugees in the Middle East deserves far more attention than it has received and Maronite Bishop Gregory J. Mansour says it’s time Catholics in the pew knew about it.
The work of feeding, sheltering and providing health care for hundreds of thousands of people who have trekked to safety in Jordan and Lebanon from Iraq and Syria is a story that the mainstream media largely has ignored, much to the chagrin of Mansour, the incoming chairman of the board at CRS.
In a Dec. 16 interview with Catholic News Service, he said that the focus of much media reporting has been on assessing blame for the catastrophe or analyzing the response of governments in the region with little attention paid to the plight of the people uprooted from their homes.
Mansour heads the Eparchy of St. Maron in Brooklyn, which includes Maronite Catholics in the District of Columbia and 16 states. It is one of two Maronite eparchies in the U.S.