The World Help team began our day delivering life-saving aid in the Baharka camp, home to 5,000 displaced Iraqis. Most of these families are from Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, which fell to ISIS last year. I couldn’t help but marvel that just months earlier,...
If you’re a parent, you know the helpless feeling when your child gets sick. You would do anything to protect them from pain—we all would. Fortunately for us in the West, our children have 24-hour access to the best doctors and medicine money can provide. We don’t...
Today, our team traveled to a community of 850 refugee families who once lived in Qaraqosh. Many of them are Christians, including Yazidis and several other minorities. But they all have one thing in common: ISIS gave them the ultimatum to convert, pay, or die....
Watch From the Field: Iraq | Hope for Refugee Children Through Education on Vimeo. I’m with the World Help team in Northern Iraq, and we’ve just spent the day with the future leaders of this nation—kindergarteners. This World Help sponsored school of more than 150...
Watch From the Field: Iraq | Interceding for Persecuted Christians on Vimeo The World Help team spent the day in a refugee camp in Ankawa where hundreds of Christians have fled from Qaraqosh. ISIS has made it their aim to eradicate these people in Northern Iraq . . ....
I’m in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq in a refugee community where thousands of Yazidi people have fled from ISIS. As I listened to some of their stories today, I learned that they are the lucky ones. ISIS is waging a bloody ethno-religious war against Yazidis and other minority...