Source: CryOut prayer email, June 8, 2015
A coordinated plan is underway among several Yazidi refugee camps throughout Turkey to leave their camps [and] migrate to the northwest border of Turkey. Their intent is to bring attention to their plight so that the international community might agree to relocate them to a permanent home in non-Muslim countries, which is their desire.
After nine months in makeshift tent camps where temperatures can reach 120-degrees, where baby formula and diapers are in short supply for mothers unable to produce milk due to PTSD and where very few educational resources are available to children/youth, staying put is no longer an option. Many have come to a point that they would rather risk their lives than waste away, forgotten about, with no promise of relocation.
As a marginalized people they are asking the Christian community for help, and based on what they know of Christians and previous interactions with them, they believe Christians will help them.
Leaders in a local church near one of the camps in southeast Turkey have been studying the Gospels with a Kurd from a nearby local church and have indicated that they believe Jesus will help them in their plight and have begun to call out to him in prayer.
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