By Samer Attar Samer Attar, a surgeon with Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, is a volunteer with the Syrian American Medical Society and the Aleppo City Medical Council. “Please don’t cut off my leg,” a Syrian man pleaded. He had been shopping when a missile hit a crowded market. The blast Continue Reading
Number of Refugees to Europe Surges to Record 1.3 Million in 2015
BY PHILLIP CONNOR A record 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 – nearly double the previous high water mark of roughly 700,000 that was set in 1992 after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Continue Reading
Compassion vs. conversion: surprising insight on why these evangelicals welcome refugees
By Bobby Ross Jr. I traveled to the Toronto area earlier this year to write about two Canadian churches that partnered to adopt a family of Syrian refugees: BEAMSVILLE, Ontario — As war ravaged their homeland, a Syrian family of eight fled for their lives. The Muslim father, mother and six Continue Reading
Mideast’s Ancient Bible Christians: ‘We Are a People on the Brink of Extinction’
Posted by PETER JESSERER SMITH WASHINGTON — The genocide carried out by the Islamic State group (ISIS) has sought to wipe out the Christian peoples of Syria and Iraq from their ancient homelands, but also to destroy the historical identity of the survivors. Hundreds of ancient Christian Continue Reading
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