Source: CryOut prayer email, June 8, 2015<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full article<\/a>, browse CryOut archives, or subscribe to updates.<\/p>\n \u00bb Also see Christians Among 88 Eritrean Refugees Kidnapped by ISIS<\/a> (The Christian Post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading TURKEY: Yazidi People Ask Jesus to Help Them Find a Permanent Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}