Helping Syrian families return home
A home rehabilitation project in Syria is helping families displaced by war return to their communities and neighborhoods.
Supporting Lebanon’s Unseen Migrant Domestic Workers
Insaaf is a Lebanese Christian organization that supports and advocates for migrant domestic workers. Through medical assistance and access to clinics, food support, vocational training, computer and language lessons, and weekly Bible studies, Insaaf serves women who often go unseen in Lebanese society. MERATH partners with Insaaf to strengthen this work, supporting a community that is often unseen.
Winter Deepens the Humanitarian Strain on Displaced Families in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley
Snow coated the mountains around the Beqaa Valley and turned the roads into a slippery passage. The cold cut through the streets, where small, fragile houses were scattered across the hillsides.
How a BBS teacher is trusting God in Lebanon’s post-war uncertainty
After a year of airstrikes, sonic booms, and constant fear, more than a hundred preschoolers stood proudly on the graduation stage at Beirut Baptist School (BBS) in June.
“The situation is not okay” Thimar partners face attacks and threats in Syria
The attack took place during the church’s evening liturgy, which had been launched — in addition to its morning service — to accommodate students who attended classes earlier in the day.
A peacemaker amid Syria’s sectarian massacres
In a small village in northwest Syria, tensions were still high as 150 women from different religious backgrounds gathered for a Mother’s Day event hosted by a Thimar-supported church in late March.
The needs of Lebanon’s latest refugee crisis
A man carries a young girl across a river seperating Lebanon and Syria. When Nisrine* speaks about fleeing her home, she begins to cry. Earlier this month, she was on her way to see her parents when gunmen stopped and searched the bus she was on, she said. “Who is...
Christmas in a new, uncertain Syria
Pastor Dani* woke to the sound of gunfire. In the early hours of December 8, the sky was still dark as Dani opened his phone and turned on the news. What he saw had seemed unimaginable just hours before he had gone to sleep: opposition forces battling the Syrian...
Caught in Lebanon’s modern day slavery system, her only hope was Jesus.
The war in Lebanon has made life harder for Hayat and many of the other 176,000 migrant workers estimated to be in the country. But her hardships, like those of other migrant women, began long before conflict flared up between Hezbollah and Israel.