By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, February 03, 2024 – https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastors-wife-urges-qatar-matriarch-to-help-free-israeli-hostages.html The wife of a megachurch pastor as well as…
In December 2013, violent conflict between the South Sudanese government and opposition forces broke out, causing people to flee to…
The Qaraqosh cross is named for the largest Christian city in the Mosul region, often considered the cradle of Christianity in Iraq. ISIS began attacking this area in 2014, murdering Christians, demolishing churches and burning down peoples’ homes. In just three short years, the town which had previously been inhabited by nearly 40,000 Christians had turned into a ghost town, with many people murdered, and many having fled for safety to Jordan and other areas within Iraq.
In 2014 the world became aware of the Yazidi people. Though they had been a persecuted people group for centuries prior – enduring 73 genocides throughout history – their unfortunate fate as one of ISIS’s targets brought on their 74th genocide and catapulted them to the forefront of international news. ISIS ravaged the Yazidi town of Sinjar, murdering and kidnapping many, and then forcing the weak, infirmed and elderly to march up the nearby mountain.
On February 10th Reload Love will launch its 4th annual Love Bomb – a forty-eight-hour virtual giving campaign to bring aid to children throughout the world who’ve been impacted by the horror of terrorism. This year, a portion of the funds raised will help children of the Rohingya tribe.
Reload Love has been able to put up a playground for the children in Raqqa, Syria only a few months after a devastating battle to drive out IsIs ended with almost complete devastation of the city and thousands of casualties.
My first day in Jordan I was sent out on a home visit. I met a Syrian mother and her two small children. She shared her story plagued with fear, abuse and illness. We shared stories of Jesus, she wept. I held her baby girls, I never wanted to leave. As we left the woman kissed my cheeks and asked me to come back to her. This woman was nine months pregnant and because of her physical condition she was expecting to die during childbirth. I would never see them again.
This is Shamim – a 7 year old child that was shot in the leg from Burma soldiers that raided his town. Thankfully he was able to escape with his life – but barely. Others weren’t as lucky (such as his father who was killed in earlier terroristic events from the soldiers). Shamim now suffers from nightmares.