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I just love this article!  It is a feel good article!  This is one of the places our Humanitarian donations go!  I'd love to serve a mission like this if I were younger!     · May 24, 2020 Cover image: Children at Rashen School in Erbil, Iraq. LDSCHARITIES built new bathrooms, donated a computer, printer, and playground equipment. If you were asked to name one of the most notoriously unstable regions in the world, Syria would likely be the first country to come to mind. Images of bombed-out cities that resemble disaster films, as well as chilling pictures of refugee children washed up on the shores of Greece have circulated the globe ever since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. The raging violence has resulted in an estimated 450,000 deaths. As problematic as the death count is the refugee crisis. Syria has become the face of the modern crisis, with 5 million refugees who have fled the country and 13.5 million people who ...

This lovely article was in the March 1988 Ensign.  With much turmoil and suffering in this world, I hope we all can remember to LOVE ONE ANOTHER! This was reprinted in LDS Living recently, from lds.org. We Couldn’t Preach, but We Could Love By  Annette Stevenson Print Share In the refugee camp … The plane glided above the peaceful green islands below. I looked out of the window in awe. Surely we were headed for paradise! One month earlier, my mission president had informed me that I would be sent to serve in a Vietnamese refugee camp on Palawan, an island between Vietnam and the Philippines. My companion had come from one of the refugee camps in Thailand, where she had been serving with twelve other LDS lady missionaries. She was strong, reliable, and full of charity. I remembered my introduction to her at the airport. I had heard that lady missionaries sent to the refugee camps ran the risk of losing their missionary discipline, and I was almost certai...

Did you see "Meet The Mormons"?   Bishnu Adhikari, who was featured in   Meet the Mormons , went back to his country of Nepal to help his people.  If you have even a small amount of money you could send to help these poor people, it would be great! Bishnu Adhikari: I Need Your Help Here in Nepal By Scot and Maurine Proctor  · May 19, 2016 Wondering how to help refugees? We have been. Here’s one big idea. For every dollar that Meridian readers donate to help in the cause described below, DoTERRA will match dollar for dollar. Click here to see what you can do. There are political refugees, driven from their homes by tyrants. Then there are other kinds of refugees, driven from their homes by physical disaster as walls topple in and roofs collapse. Neither can survive well unless someone steps into help as our leaders have noted in the most recent General Conference. Meridian Cares in partnership with doTERRA and CHOICE Humanitarian ar...

This fascinating article came from LDS Living.  It is so interesting to hear about members of the Church in foreign countries, especially like Greece, where parts of the New Testament were about. Missionaries on Mars Hill & Church Near the Acropolis: What It's Like to Be LDS in Greece by Jenny Hunt  | May. 17, 2016 Mormon Life The Saints in Greece may be a melting pot of cultures, languages, and traditions, but there’s one thing they all have in common: their faith in the restored gospel. Living in a culture steeped in tradition, where 97 percent of the population belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church, most Church members living in Greece actually come from outside of the country and speak a myriad of languages. But this little conglomeration of cultures still comes together every Sunday—despite challenges of all kinds—to strengthen one another and renew the covenants they hold so dear.               ...