Caring for Christian Refugee Children
As part of the Religious Freedom Coalition’s participation in bringing thousands of social conservative activists to the Values Voter Summit, it maintain an exhibit in the main hall of the hotel where the annual event is held.
The need is so great that there is no amount of private aid than can provide for the needs of the suffering Christians of Syria and Iraq. We have been doing what we can and have helped to deliver several sea going containers of food and clothing this year. That is a drop in the bucket, as there are hundreds of thousands of Christian refugees
The Religious Freedom Coalition may not primarily be an aid organization, but what aid we do deliver in the Middle East goes only to Christians. Despite our size we are able to deliver hundreds of tons a year of food, clothing and medicines to the suffering Christians from Iraq and Syria.
Jihadists seized Iraq’s largest Christian town and surrounding areas Thursday, sending tens of thousands of panicked residents fleeing in what is being called a humanitarian disaster, officials and witnesses said. The onslaught saw the Sunni extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) extend its writ over northern Iraq and move within striking distance of autonomous Kurdistan, in one of the most dramatic developments of the two month-old conflict.
The monastery of St Sergius is dedicated to a Roman officer (Sergius) who was martyred in the fourth century, for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. The monastery, built of stone during the fourth century, was damaged in battles but still stands. Unfortunately the inside of the buildings were looted and defiled by the Islamic fighters
The Christmas for Refugee program will expand from the 1,000 children we served in 2013 to at least 10,000 in 2014. Rather than plan a few large events in winter as we did last year, it seems it would be better to have many smaller groups of children, in churches all over Jordan and Lebanon
The Very Reverend Keith Roderick, our brother in the Lord and a member of the Board of Directors of the Religious Freedom Coalition, has passed away. Father Keith, as most called him, died in his sleep at home at age 61 greatly to be missed by the oppressed of this world. He will be missed by many around the world. Father Keith was an operating director or the Christmas for Refugee program.
Facing nearly certain disaster from the storm, all denominations became one family in the Lord working to provide a special day for refugee children. All came together to agree that regardless of the downed trees and power lines and roads littered with wrecked autos and trucks, that the children would have their Christmas dinner. …