Don’t look away: Why we can’t ignore what’s happening in Syria
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...
Refugees discover they can’t go home again
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...
Update from Syria: the horrors continue
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,...
On the Syrian border: Refugees face more than one enemy
I often get asked, “Vernon, why do you keep traveling back to refugee camps on the Syrian border?” For me, the answer is simple. Because ISIS has not yet been completely defeated. Because these refugees still can’t return home. And because they and their loves ones...
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