Staff at the Christian humanitarian charity CAFOD urged believers to intercede, hours before a vote among the United Nations Security Council in New York at 5pm (UK time).
Alan Thomlinson, CAFOD’s Syria Crisis Programme Manager, told Premier that believers can be “praying for a ceasefire, for humanitarian access and that all sides would be able to come together and find a negotiated settlement and a peaceful settlement to this conflict”.
The call for prayer came at activists claimed 32 people died during a sixth day of air strikes by Syrian government warplanes on rebel-held areas in and around eastern Damascus.
The fatalities, reported by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, suggest more than 450 people have now died in violence in or near eastern Ghouta district.
Referring to eastern Ghouta, Alan Thomlinson said: “The challenge is that this is an urban area with over 400,000 civilians stay living there; they are trapped in this cycle of violence.”
Members of the UN Security Council are due to vote on a draft resolution which will demand a nationwide ceasefire and warn that 5.6 million people in Syria are in “acute need”.
Mr Thomlinson added: “We’re calling for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian access, allow agencies in to provide food…
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