Let’s be honest. It’s easy to get compassion fatigue when you talk about the refugee situation in the Middle East. After so many years, it feels like this crisis will never end. So, it’s not surprising when people ask, “Why should I even care anymore?” It’s a valid...
If the refugee crisis in the Middle East, South Sudan, and around the globe has taught us anything, it’s this — children always suffer most. Adnan was born just nine months after the Syrian civil war began. And by the time the little boy was 7 months old, war had come...
Last week, two children in Syria’s Idlib province were killed when a land mine exploded.An Aleppo man died as rocket shells rained down on his neighborhood.And a Christian woman was tortured for nine hours before being stoned to death.Daily life in Syria is ugly and...
After months in a refugee camp, a woman we’ll call Hana decided to try going home. Home was all she thought about as she wiped dust off her children’s faces, cooked whatever food she could find, and cleaned their little spot of ground in the refugee camp. The day that...
In the “Wizard of Oz,” young Dorothy is stranded in a land far from her home in Kansas. Over the course of the story, she realizes how wonderful her home is, and she longs desperately to return. In the end, all she has to do is click together the heels of her magical,...
Once again in Syria, innocent civilians are being forced from their homes … whether their home was a remaining structure or an unstable refugee tent.Over the past several weeks, a resurgence of bombings in Syria’s Idlib province has killed more than 300 civilians,...
