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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...

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 ...