Elizabeth and The Greatest Gift
Restoring A Mission Hospital
Samaritan’s Purse volunteers are revitalizing a missionary medical facility in Nigeria, helping it carry out its mission of offering quality health care and telling people that “Christ Heals”
Samaritan’s Purse Responding to Refugee Crisis in Europe
Hundreds of thousands of refugees desperate to start new lives in the West have rapidly streamed through Europe this year, overwhelming certain nations along their path. It is the largest crisis of its kind in the region since the Second World War. Many of these men, women, and children are in a mad scramble to…
Listen to Q&A with Refugee Crisis First Responder
Click above to hear a brief phone interview with Samaritan’s Purse staff member, Dave Holzhauer, as he shares the needs he is seeing in Europe, how Samaritan’s Purse is helping, and ways to pray for the refugees. “The situation here is like nothing I’ve seen before,” Dave said, “women, children, and men making their way with literally nothing.”…
Distributions for Distressed Refugees in Croatia
Salma, her husband, and his brother left their home in Iraq when it burned down one and a half years ago. They moved to Amman, Jordan, with the few belongings they had left in search of a new life. But life didn’t turn out as they had planned in Jordan, so, recently, they decided to…
Types of Gifts
Ministering to Refugees Stranded in Greece
Tents and cooking fires fill the Greek stations where Syrian and Iraqi refugees, until recently, would catch trains and travel deeper into Western Europe in search of a new life. Now, with recent border closings, all refugees can do is wait and hope, whether on the outskirts of cities like Athens or other areas, such…
An Unsettling Frontier
Bahark had heard the sound of bulldozers before. When she heard that sound in Idomeni camp she knew it meant that she, her husband, and her daughter soon would be moving again. They had been smuggled into Greece on a rubber raft a few months ago and arrived in this northernmost Greek region only days…
Courage Undeterred
Since their emergence in northeastern Nigeria in 2002, militants in the terrorist organization Boko Haram have set about the task of remaking West Africa into their own image. Seeking to eliminate differing ideologies, they have killed thousands of people of various backgrounds. Often overlooked are the faces of those that survive. Throughout Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon,…
Help Refugees in Greece Facing a Harsh Winter
Nine months ago, Abraham arrived in Greece from the African country of Eritrea. He came seeking peace. Now he has found, blanketed in a freeze, a country normally known for its mild weather year-round. “It’s so cold,” Abraham said. “We are fighting against nature. In Eritrea it’s never cold. It’s hot!” Many Africans have never…
