New year in southeast Turkey
We ask for your prayers as we have a team in Turkey right now. We thank God that they all arrived safely.
This is the third team to go to the region in five months to assess the refugee situation, encourage the...
ISIS releases 19 Christians, still holds hundreds
The Assyrian International News Agency is reporting that ISIS released 19 Christians today.
The Associated Press reports tribal leaders and Assyrian rights groups are negotiating for the release of 220 Christi...
Estimate of kidnapped Assyrian Christians rises near 300
News outlets, including the BBC, are now reporting that as many as 285 Christians have been abducted in northeast Syria by ISIS. That number is closer to the estimate of 100 families we received from a church o...
Church leader: As many as 100 families captured by ISIS
See detail of Assyrian villages below.
Earlier today, we shared a news report saying that at least 90 Assyrian Christians had been abducted by Islamic State forces in northeastern Syria.
We have now learned ...
ISIS in Syria reportedly abducts 90 from Christian villages
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is reporting that at least 90 Christians have been kidnapped by ISIS in northeast Syria. Read the Reuters report.
The villages mentioned in the SOHR report are about 10...
Answered prayers in Syria, seeds of hope in Iraq
In October 2014 just after the battle for Kobane had begun, and ISIS forces had taken over half of the city and were threatening to take the entire town, a team of young Israelis serving in the refugee camps tr...
Winter worsens refugees’ situation
Since Islamic State's initial attack on Mosul and then subsequently on the Christians and Yezidis of the surrounding area of Sinjar Province -- which precipitated the initial refugee crisis last August into nor...
Yazidis still moving, still need help
Yazidi refugees find shelter in vacant store front and unfinished buildings in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan, on Aug. 26, 2014. Christ Church Jerusalem and At the Crossroads sent a team to access the situation, conne...
Israelis send aid to Iraqi refugees
Yezidi refugees have set up makeshift camps in vacant and under construction buildings in northern Iraq, including this one in Zakho.
The last week of August, two Israelis and an American representing At the ...
N. Iraq refugee aid: How to get involved
The provinces of northern Iraq.
Thank you to all of you who have responded and asked how you could practically get involved in helping with the refugee crisis in northern Iraq.
We are in contact daily with v...