Today is World Refugee Day, an important time to remember the nearly 60 million individuals worldwide who have been displaced by conflict. This year, we especially honor the courage and perseverance of those in the Middle East who are experiencing the largest...
You’ve likely heard about the battle for Fallujah—50,000 individuals trapped as a result of the terror of ISIS. Entire families—men, women, and even children—are in desperate need after being trapped for several months now. Five hundred families escaped Fallujah so...
You may have seen in the news: US-backed Iraqi forces are battling for Fallujah, the ISIS-captured stronghold city in central Iraq. What you may not know is the disastrous humanitarian fallout: All supply lines into the city have been cut off. Their stockpiles of food...
We are trying to survive, but we are still in a shock about our situation. We are afraid of the winter as we are sleeping on the ground and the weather is very extreme here. Our lives depend entirely on God and other people. –Fahad, age 16, refugee from Mosul, Iraq...
What’s happening to the people of Syria isn’t about politics anymore. It’s about life and death, survival and suffering . . . and the bleak reality that if we don’t respond now, the future of an entire nation hangs in the balance. The U.N estimates that 1.4 million...
