Prayer Updates – Page 5 – 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...

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 ...

Gaza in the Bible, in History, and the Future

Can You Hear the Sound of Rain? A New Day for Lebanon

“We felt surrounded by family”: Isaiah 19 Aid Project Restores Dignity in Syria

Banned from Turkey! And Why it’s Important