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...
In Syria, access to medical care is virtually nonexistent. Hospitals and clinics have been forced to move underground, having become direct targets of the regime army. Doctors have fled for their lives, knowing that if they are found aiding civilians, they will be...
The U.N. reports the arrival of 3,000 Syrian refugees into Jordan every day. For most of them, their only concern is to escape the terror they’ve experienced in Syria. But they could never anticipate the new misery that awaits them. A typical day for these refugees is...
Shells explode in the distance. Shouting. A woman’s cry. The sobbing of a child. Bloodstained streets. The Syrian border is only a few miles away, but for hundreds of thousands of refugees, the nightmare is far from over. The biting winds signal the coming of winter,...
Crisis in Syria from World Help. I just returned from an emergency trip to the Syrian border. What I saw there was horrifying . . . heart-wrenching . . . images of tragedy that were worse than I ever thought possible. I literally met hundreds of refugees who were...