WORLD: Responding to Syrian Refugees

Source: various via Pat Noble

I was asked by leaders of my church to find a way for us to get involved helping the Syrian refugees. On my quest I found some resources you might find useful, too.

A Trickle of Syrian Refugees Settles Across the United States is an interactive article with maps and charts from the New York Times. A Christian Response to the Refugee Crisis in Europe  is a report from the International Association for Refugees. See also a dozen short videos compiled by a fellow member of the COMMA network:

1. Little girl celebrating her birthday in Syria and then as a refugee (Save the Children, 1:33 minutes)
2. Freezing and Fighting for Aid: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (VICE News, 17:50 minutes)
3. Syrian refugees: women fleeing domestic violence (Channel 4 News, 7:04 minutes)
4. Refugee Crisis: The End of Innocence in Hungary, short documentary describing the refugee journey (Channel 4 News, 3:56 minutes)
5. The British family helping thousands of refugees on Lesbos (Channel 4 News, 8:07 minutes)
6. Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, about Syrian women and children living on the streets in Lebanon (MiraH, 6:11 minutes)
7. Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Harsh Reality, promotional video for effort providing humanitarian aid to Syrian women and children (Caritas Lebanon, 7:16 minutes)
8. Syrian Refugee Appeal Video for Churches, promotional video with prayer for the Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe (Viva Worldwide, 3:40 minutes)
9. Hadath Baptist Church: Syrian Refugee Response, prayer video for Syrian refugees (Hadath Baptist Church in Lebanon, 3:55 minutes)
10. Rescue For Refugees: A Christian Response, testimonies of Christians in the Middle East during the Syrian/Iraqi crisis (Samaritan’s Purse, 12:04 minutes)
11. Escaping War: Refugees in Europe, highlighting humanitarian response (Samaritan’s Purse, 4:06 minutes)
12. The Rising Tide: Europe Refugee Crisis, video showing the state of Syrian refugees taking boats to Greece (Samaritan’s Purse, 5:55 minutes)

» See also: Syrian Migrant Family in Limbo at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport (BBC).