
Iraqi Refugees Who Fled Islamic State Face Somber Christmas in Lebanon
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The Wall Street Journal reports on the Christmas that Christian refugees from Iraq and Syria will have this year – as they have been driven from their homes by Islamic State terrorists. As Pastor Youssef Denha put it: “This is a holiday of sadness, not happiness. Daesh (Islamic State) has left us with nothing.”

The Human Cost: Ethnic Cleansing In The Middle East
“I had a 600 square meter home in Mosul. now I live in 6 square meters,” said the 74-year-old science professor who now lives in what can best be described as a booth in a church basement. For those not familiar with metric, his 6,400 square foot home was stolen by the Islamic State, and he now lives in an area of about 64 square feet. He was not exaggerating. He had photos of his home with the Arabic letter “nun” painted on it, and over the door written “Property of the Islamic State.”

Iraqi and Syrian Refugee Children Celebrate Christmas Far From Their Homes
Unlike many humanitarian feeding programs, Christmas for Refugees presented the Christmas story and the “reason for the season,” the coming of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. At each Christmas meal event the birth of Christ was explained in detail in puppet shows and through each event coordinator and pastor. Children even received a special colorful comic book describing the true meaning of Christmas

An Urgent Need In Crisis Ridden Iraq
Manara Ministries is the ministry overseeing the Religious Freedom Coalition Christmas For Refugees program in the Middle East. RFC Chairman William J. Murray is currently in Lebanon working with Manara to provide a Christmas meal for hundreds of refugee children – children displaced by Islamic terrorists – like those barbarians who killed 132 children in Pakistan yesterday.

First Christmas Event Held For Refugee Children in Lebanon
On December 6th the first Christmas dinner for one hundred Christian refugee children was held in Beirut, Lebanon. The next two dinners will be held in Lebanon on in mid-month. The remaining nine planned banquets will be held Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

Chairman's Report December 12, 2014
In this issue: Christmas for Refugees program begins in Lebanon / Did Senators and Congressmen respond to constituents' demands to stop Islamist rebels? / The National Defense Authorization Act, not exactly transparent / The Damascus Massacre - will history repeat itself? / Syrian refugees -- from middle class to suddenly dirt poor

Support RFC’s Christmas For Christian Refugees Ministry
The Christmas for Refugees program that was so successful last year is being expanded. As of now, the plans are for 1,000 Christmas dinners to be served to Christian refugee children in Jordan and 1,000 more to children in Lebanon. Each child will take home to their family a box of staple foods valued at about $30 to $35. The ministry we coordinate with in Lebanon says they can easily expand the program to 1,500 or even 2,000 children — if we can raise the funds. Please pray that we can reach as many children as possible.

Syrian Refugee Babies Freeze To Death In Tent Camps
BABY Fatima was less than 48 hours old when she died last weekend. Her parents, Syrian refugees living in a tent on the outskirts of Arsal, a Lebanese border town, rushed to the local hospital when they found she was not responding, but it was already too late: she had succumbed to the first snap of freezing winter weather.

The Churchless City That Helped Topple Communism
Shortly after the November 2014 general election, Gov. Mike Huckabee led a journey of 100 pastors and other evangelical leaders to some of the bright spots of history, but also to some of the darkest places on earth, including the Nazi death camps in Poland and Nowa Huta, a godless "workers' paradise built by communist utopianists

Chairman's Report November 20, 2014
In this issue (which was largely written on an airplane): Quarter of a million "Stop Funding Terror" postcards for Congress distributed / Christmas for Refugees dinners about more than just food / Gov. Mike Huckabee leads tour group (including William Murray) to places where the battles against ideological tyrannies were fought / A visit to hell on earth at Auschwitz / What changes will elections of 2014 bring?