Solidarity with the Persecuted Church

The Islamic State occupation of Iraq’s Nineveh Plain devastated the Christian presence. Now that Many Christian villages have been liberated, the Christians are eager to return home. Join Solidarity with the Persecuted Church in rebuilding these Christian villages.

Nineveh Plain, Iraq

The Holy Family Center in Erbil helps create jobs for displaced families and cares for newborn children in order to create a stable family environment allowing them to remain together and prosperous even in an otherwise desperate situation.

Erbil, Iraq

25 Syriac Christian Parishes are living as exiles in Northern Iraq. These communities, mostly Orthodox and Syriac Catholic, are struggling to rebuild their lives as refugees while they await n eventual return to their ancient homelands.

Dohuk, Iraq

For over six years Nigeria has been fighting a vicious radical Islamic insurgency, Boko Haram. In a nation which is over half Christian, Churches have been destroyed, girls have been kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, or slaughtered outright. Finally, Nigeria is able to begin focusing on a long road to reconstruction, but the Church needs help rebuilding parishes, and caring for the hundreds of thousands displaced by Boko Haram.

The Nigerian Church

Orphans caused by the 220,000 deaths due to the Syrian civil war may have a future at the “Little Angel’s” orphanage on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria.  Patriarch Aphrem of the Syrian Orthodox church has recently acquired a property that he intends as a place to care for Syria’s orphans.

The Little Angels Orphanage