The Church Aids Middle East Refugees

Refugees fleeing war-torn Iraq are receiving help from the Church.

According to officials of the Humanitarian Service Division, in the Welfare Services Department, some thirteen thousand blankets and eighty thousand pounds of used clothing provided by the Church were sent to Kurdish refugees in Turkey.

The Church also made funds available to the United Nations, World Vision, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the purchase of medical supplies.

The supplies provided to the ICRC were turned over to Red Crescent societies in Turkey and Iran, who planned to distribute them to refugees on the Turkish, Iranian, and Saudi Arabian borders of Iraq, as well as to Iraqi hospitals and medical clinics.