Syria

Earlier this month, Shai Fund went in to Turkey and Iraq to investigate the needs of Christian refugees who have fled Iraq and Syria, and to deliver aid to those Christians still displaced in Northern Iraq and Northern Syria.

In recent months, like many concerned Westerners, in shocked silence I read news reports about the violent sweep of Islamic State (ISIS) marauders across Syria and Iraq.

ISIS’ brutal invasion began in April 2013 and still continues.

Since August 2013, thousands of Syrian and now Iraqi asylum seekers have arrived in Bulgaria via Turkey. The influx of asylum seekers into Bulgaria has been a challenge to the local authorities, which have never had to absorb such a substantial numbers of asylum seekers.