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The young father and his family spent two years in a camp for the displaced in Iraq after Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists took over his town, burned his house and blew up his liquor shop. Like many in the camps, when ISIS was finally defeated, Zain found his hometown and his house in ruins. He saw no choice but to rebuild from the ashes. Native missionaries who had given his family critical aid in the Erbil camp came alongside him, providing basic supplies for rebuilding and helping to paint his house.

A Jewish follower of Christ doing street evangelism as a native missionary to his own people in Israel was unable to strike up a conversation with a married couple, but they did accept his book about prophecy in the Book of Isaiah’s chapter 53. A few days later they called him, asking for more literature on the subject. “The couple was involved in Jewish religion studies and believed in God,” said the evangelist, Jacob. “I tried to point to the sinfulness of man and to the true meaning of the sacrifices in the Law…”

As a young schoolgirl in the Middle East, Ayah was taught that Christians were only out to undermine and overtake her Muslim country, and she was furious when her mother became a Christian.

The rebel fight for Afrin in northern Syria has driven thousands of civilians out of the city, including Christians who fear for their lives as they find themselves displaced alongside radical Muslims.

Lebanon was never a welcoming place for refugees after Syria’s civil war broke out in 2011, as an 11-year-old boy who lost his father to a bombing found out.