Zeinal
In March 2019, The Nazarene Fund was called to help recover women and children who had been held by the Islamic State in Baghuz, Syria and needed to be reunited with their families. Kurdish forces had surrounded the Syrian town and they were locked in a heated battle with ISIS fighters as the terrorist group […]
This Pandemic Will Not Defeat Our Strong Faith
Meet one of The Nazarene Fund’s heroes! Although he would never say it, but Middle East Operations Manager Jawad Abou Jaoude is one of them. Jawad has devoted his life to helping others, and he leads our efforts in The Middle East. His work has helped tens of thousands of people fleeing war, persecution, and […]
Our Covid Response
Delivers Aid to Persecuted Communities During Global Pandemic With gloves on and masks secured, The Nazarene Fund’s operators are delivering aid to persecuted Christians and Yazidis in The Middle East as the COVID-19 virus spreads across the world. Over the last few weeks, The Nazarene Fund has brought food and hygiene kits to over 1,000 […]
Halima
In July 2020, The Nazarene Fund successfully recovered Halima, a 22-year old Yazidi woman held by traffickers in Turkey. All rescues are a cause for celebration; however, Halima’s rescue is significant not only because it gives us hope that other missing women and children taken by the Islamic State (ISIS) are still alive, but because […]
The Khoury Family
The Christian community of Idlib, a province in Northwestern Syria near the Turkish border, is among the most vulnerable in all of the country. Idlib, the last stronghold of the anti-Assad rebels, has welcomed over 3 million refugees from other provinces seeking shelter from the ongoing violence. However, the Syrian army launched a major offensive […]
Christine
In 2015, Christine’s hometown was invaded by ISIS. The three-year-old Christian girl was literally pulled from her mother’s arms, taken into captivity, forced into slavery, and abused on a daily basis. Following the liberation of Mosul from ISIS in 2017, Christine was moved and ended up in a refugee camp along with other children orphaned […]
The Mikhael Family
A burned corpse dumped in the pool of his family’s hotel was a stark warning to Antonios Mikhael to either surrender his property to the rebel militia controlling his neighborhood in Homs Syria, or suffer the consequences. The Tonias Hotel in which Antonios had invested all of his life savings right before the beginning of […]
Martine’s Story
“Some people don’t believe in heroes, but they haven’t met my dad.” — Unknown On August 11, 2014, Khudeida Haji experienced a father’s worst nightmare. After sending his family to what he thought was a safe location, his wife, one of his sons, and both of his daughters were kidnapped by fighters from the Islamic […]
Malak
The Nazarene Fund reunited 11-year-old Malak with her family after six years of captivity by the Islamic State (ISIS). Malak was discovered by our partners in late January 2020 at the Al Hol refugee camp where she was held hostage by the wife of an ISIS fighter. Malak was kidnapped with her father, mother, and […]
Rita and Rana
In 2018, Rita and Rana started to once again regain hope after four years in captivity. Fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS) had kidnapped and enslaved them back in 2014 just because of their Christian faith. Both women suffered immensely during captivity and despite that they were captured separately, both received similar abuses, forced conversion […]