This month children in Syria are to meet in mass prayer, to end the ‘spiral of death’ that is killing hundreds of people in rebel-held districts of Aleppo. Christian and Muslim boys and girls in Aleppo will join together to pray for an end to the deadly bombing raids, Archbishop Boutros Marayati, head of the Armenian Catholic church in Aleppo, told Agenzia Fides, ‘Many cannot leave Aleppo. New blood will be shed if the powers behind the two warring parties do not decide to really put an end to this dirty war.’ The schoolchildren will sign and fingerprint an appeal begging world rulers to put an end to the massacres. ‘But above all, they will pray. They will pray for all of their peers. And we trust in the fact that children's prayer is more powerful than ours’, said Archbishop Marayati. See also article 1 (on the 4-14 window) in the World section.