Fr William Stuart, who set up a school for Syrian refugees in Tyre, says he is unable to return to Ireland
and many trips home to Ireland to raise funds, Fr Stuart was able to keep going and even expand classes during the ongoing Lebanese teachers’ strike, when the currency devalued dramatically and reduced state teachers’ salaries.
The result is that he cannot get out of the country and was unable to come home to Ireland when the school closed for its usual end-of-year holiday. In recent weeks, he was in his house when a rocket fired by the Israelis against Hamas struck nearby and he felt his house shake. Israel is just south of Tyre.
“They [the authorities] are never going to tell me to go, but they are making my like impossible for me to stay,” he said. Fr Stuart said he had made “many” journeys to the authorities in Beirut to try to get his passport back and had missed many events and fundraisers at home in Ireland. “Three times now I have had to cancel,” he said. Events he has missed at home include a gala fundraising dinner and the funeral of a best friend’s mother, and he is very concerned about a wedding he is to perform in a matter of weeks.
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