Updates – Page 13 – Derech Avraham

Israel ‘very interested’ in strengthening relations with Kurds (JPost)

From the Jerusalem Post: News published in the Financial Times on Sunday that Israel imports most of its oil from Iraq’s Kurdish areas came as no shock to those following the secretive Israel-Kurd relationship....

Syria: Islamists tear down the Catholic monastery Mar Elian in Syria

"Following the murder of Palmyra’s renowned chief archaeologist, Khaled Asaad (82), extremists of the 'Islamic State' (IS) continue to destroy Christian churches and monasteries in Syria. On Thursday, they star...

Turkey, the Kurds and Christian responsibility

A Turkish pastor and his translator give a report to a prayer group at Christ Church Jerusalem. In July, a pastor and former mayor from a city in Turkey* visited Israel with the mission to create bridges betw...

VIDEO: A cry for salvation – The Yezidi’s tragedy

Screen capture from the film "A cry for salvation - The Yezidi's tragedy." In April 2015 the Yezidi people located in the refugee camp of Diyarbakir, Turkey, asked the Diyarbakir Protestant Church to help the...

Kurds secure Kobane, but death toll of ISIS attack up to 200; violence personally affects partners

Kurdish forces cleared Kobane of the ISIS infiltrators who killed 200 civilians, Rudwa and others reported. At the Crossroads contacts tell us that the number of dead could be twice that. Many families on both...

ISIS kills Kobane-area civilians in surprise attack; partners in the area ask for prayer

About 30 ISIS fighters disguised as Kurdish security slipped into Kobane, Syria, early Thursday and killed civilians, the Washington Post reported. CNN reported that the attackers were not only wearing Kurdish...

Reports from Yerevan: What God is doing on the Highway now

Turkish and Armenian Christians pray at the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan in April 2015. What follows is a series of testimonies given during the At the Crossroads gatherings in April by different Chr...

Audio: Forgiveness & the Armenian Genocide

http://www.cmj-israel.org/Portals/0/Images/CMJ/CMJMinistries/Christchurch/Congregation/audio/20150503_ArmenianTestimony.mp3 The Sunday after the Rev. David Pileggi spoke on his trip to Armenia, Annie M...

Armenia: Remembering, praying, reconciling

A group from At the Crossroads prays at the Armenian Genocide memorial in Armenia. Leaders and partners of At the Crossroads met in Yeravan, Armenia in mid April. We are still processing the amazing things Go...

SE Turkey’s Orthodox, Protestants mend centuries of mistrust

Courtyard of long abandoned Mardin Protestant Church, March 2015. Photo by WWM. Our partners in Mardin are rehabilitating a once-abandoned Protestant church in their city that was given to them by the local S...

‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’: Remembering Yaron Lischinsky and his legacy towards Middle East Peace

Stirrings in Sinai: Prepare the Way of the Lord

Standing with Lebanon for the rebirth of a Nation

The Significance of Cyprus as Part of the Isaiah 19 Highway