Broughshane team back from Lebanon
Published Date:
13 May 2008
By Joe Boyd
The Broughshane-based mission team who were stranded in The Lebanon last week have returned home, tired and weary, but unharmed.
You can read Church correspondent Joe Boyd's interview with Rev. William Dickey in next week's Times.
The group of 'Good Samaritans' were left stranded in one of the most notoriously volatile parts of The Lebanon amid fighting between Hezbollah and pro-Government forces.
The 13-member team were due to return home on Monday), having gone to the region to carry out missionary work at the Near End (Dar El Awlad) Boys Home, where Broughshane man, Alistair Dickey is employed as a Children's and Youth Worker.
Led by Alistair's father, Rev. William Dickey, minister of First Broughshane Presbyterian Church, they set out at the start of this month bound for the hilly suburb of Mansourieh, which is just above central Beirut, where they had planned to spend 10 days at the Christian-run orphanage undertaking refurbishment and repair tasks.
A notoriously volatile area, the latest round of fighting erupted when the government moved to shut down Hezbollah's telecoms network and remove the chief of security at Beirut airport for alleged sympathies with Hezbollah.
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Last Updated:
16 May 2008 3:58 PM
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