I recently returned from an emergency trip to Iraq, where our team is working on the frontlines of one of the worst humanitarian disasters I have ever witnessed. ISIS’ systematic slaughter of Christians and other minority groups from Iraq to Syria have driven...
Badri is the mother of seven children and the grandmother of “many more.” She and her extended family of 35 fled their homes in Iraq when an ISIS rocket struck a neighbor’s house, killing three people. As Christians, she knew that it wouldn’t be long before her family...
Another day, [ISIS soldiers] went to a different family. The kids were told to convert or be killed. They refused. There were four of them, 15 years and younger. They beheaded all of them. They were all our children. That is how evil these people are. They have no...
Today, more than half a million Christians from over 150 nations will come together to pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters from around the world. This is no imaginary suffering. Believers worldwide are risking everything—even their lives—for the sake of the...
Last week, I stood only a few hundred miles from Bethlehem, where over 2,000 years ago, our Savior was born. The dust from the desert is still on my shoes, reminding me of my spiritual heritage . . . the Middle East is where the Christian faith was born. Today, this...