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BEIRUT (BP) -- The Christian relief team heard about the needy Syrian widow living outside a Lebanese Muslim village near the Syrian border. So they took food to her. Apparently, Jesus had been there first. A refugee from the civil war in Syria, the Muslim widow, along with her three children, had sought shelter in Lebanon -- like more than 100,000 other Syrians. She was observing a traditional 40-day period of solitude to mourn her dead husband, so she had received nothing from the local Islamic aid society. When the Christians knocked at her door, the widow appeared fully covered...

As of Wednesday morning, Compassion International reports that they have not yet made contact with their Haiti office, which is near the epicenter of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake. The quake has produced many aftershocks, including two of significant intensity - over 5.0 in magnitude. Communication to Haiti is virtually impossible with widespread damage to cell towers and communication lines. Compassion shared on Twitter that their reach in Haiti involves 230 churches helping 65,000+ children/families, 2,200 Child Survival Program moms and babies and almost 100 leadership students. “Based on the epicenter, media reports and our center locations, we expect centers have been...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- World Vision, a Christian relief agency with operations in some of the world's riskiest areas, has pulled out of Iraq after the shooting death of one of its Iraqi workers. "It's just too dangerous," spokesman Dean Owen said Friday...

No Strings Attached For Iraq's suffering people, aid is aid -- Christian or otherwise By Franklin Graham Dr. David Livingstone, a 19th century Scottish medical missionary, is credited with taking modern medicine to Africa. During his estimated 29,000 miles of trekking throughout the continent, he saw the horrors of the slave trade and took action to abolish it. In India, Mother Teresa quietly lived out the mantra of St. Francis of Assisi, who said: "Preach the Gospel at all times and, when necessary, use words."