“In the clear, cold night of Christmas Eve, his voice carried very far. The shooting had stopped and in that silence he sang and the British knew the song and sang back.”

“Humanitarian access to vulnerable people is absolutely vital, there must be safe, unrestricted passage of aid to all parts of Syria.”

Not a single destroyed house has been rebuilt and at least 100,000 people remain displaced.

Ceasefires and decommissioning in people's hearts needed Bishop Donal McKeown warns.

"People are on the edge of starvation. This conflict has been devastating and very inhuman" - Mgr Roko Taban Mousa.