(ANSA) - Milan, October 23 - Some 2,000 panettoni Italian
Christmas cakes will be distributed by the Vatican outside the
Holy See's Expo Pavilion Sunday in return for donations for
refugee camps in Jordan.
"In two months it is Christmas - make a gift to be passed
to the refugee camps in Jordan," is the slogan planned for the
event at the universal exposition, the Holy See pavilion said in
a statement, adding that donations from a minimum of two or
three euros will be requested to add to more than 100,000 euros
already collected by the Pavilion for young refugees in Jordan
during the Expo six month period in collaboration with the
Pontifical Council for Culture and "Cor Unum".
"Specifically the money will help pay for school fees of
1,750 children and youngsters of school age, refugees in
different areas of Jordan arriving from the warzones of Iraq,
Mosul and the Ninive plain - Christians, Muslims and Yazidi
fleeing from the violence of Isis that controls the regions from
which they fled with their families".
An agreement signed between the Jordanian government and
the local branch of the Caritas charity allowed more than 7,500
Syrians to be sheltered in the country under the direct
responsibility of Caritas Jordan, Caritas said.
The Syrian war has caused more than 200,000 deaths since
2011 while 4.1 million people have left the country, according
to the United Nations.