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...
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...
This week, I’m traveling with a World Help team in Iraq where the depravity of ISIS has left a collateral trail of human loss and a state of chaos. Report after report tells of the group’s growing influence and the evil they are inflicting on innocent lives....
You may be watching the historic crisis unfolding before your eyes on the news—desperate Middle Eastern migrants doing whatever they can just to survive. You see their defeated faces as they are denied entrance at European borders, having already risked their lives...