While the conflict over Syria rages both inside and outside the nation’s borders, a massive humanitarian crisis is being created by the more than six million displaced people.

The Telegraph is reporting that Syrian refugees in neighboring countries have reached two million, with another 4.3 million believed to have been displaced within the country as the civil war continues unabated.

“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century – a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,” said Antonio Guterres, head of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

Many refugees are crossing the border into neighboring countries with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.

The only bright spot in the crisis is the kindness being shown to refugees in countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, even though the massive numbers is putting a huge strain on their economies.

Jordan is now hosting 515,000 Syrian refugees, representing eight per center of their population of 6.2 million but it has since closed its borders and cannot take any more.

Lebanon, on the other hand, is keeping its borders open, taking in an estimated 8,000 refugees a day, swelling the number of their total population of four million by a quarter in just two years. The Lebanese have registered 716,000 refugees with another 300,000 still undocumented.

Meanwhile, refugees are living in run down homes and makeshift camps with parents settling for menial jobs paying less than $5 per day just to feed their families.

A woman named Khadija recently arrived in Jordan with her seven children after the family’s home in Hama was destroyed.

“The home next to us was hit by a rocket and a three-year-old girl was killed,” Khadija told The Telegraph. “That is when I thought I must get my family away. I was so afraid for my children, you cannot imagine it. I thought my children would die. The children are so scared, but now they are safe.”

They left with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Another woman named Rasmeh and her husband, Ahmed, were interviewed while waiting in line to be registered as new arrivals. They were forced out of Syria with their two daughters, Worood and Asma, and their son, Waleed .

“We could not live any more. You are scared all the time. We used to have sheep and land. They took everything,” said Rasmeh. “I hope Assad stays in hell forever.”

Ahmed condemned those countries that are providing aid to Syrian President Bashar-al Assad. “If the Russians and the Chinese could see what it looked like after they had used them, they would change their mind,” he said. “If we stayed, our children would be dead by now. They have to put an end to the massacres. They have to end.”

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama and lawmakers on the Hill are grappling with a decision whether or not to authorize a military strike on Syria. The UK Parliament already voted against any intervention and France is said to be willing but is waiting for a final vote from the U.S. Congress before launching any attack on Assad’s forces.

Pope Francis is calling for peace and has set aside Saturday, September 7, as a day of prayer and penance for believers of all faiths and religious traditions to bring about an end to the conflict in Syria. The date was chosen because it is the vigil of the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady who is venerated as the Queen of Peace.

With this prayer initiative, “May a powerful cry for peace go up from every land!” he said.

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