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Refugee Crisis

World Humanitarian Day: World Vision Regional Field Director Buli Hagidok holds a baby as she talks with a refugee family in a camp in Bangladesh. Home to 886,000 refugees, this camp is the largest, most densely populated in the world.

World Humanitarian Day: An aid worker’s diary from a refugee camp

World Humanitarian Day is held every year on Aug. 19 to celebrate aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service and to rally support for people affected by crises around the world. Learn about a World Vision worker’s experience in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

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Syrian refugee girl standing in road in refugee camp.

Change Makers

Refugee portrait project paints Syrian children to provide aid to crisis

A group of 23 artists in Illinois has found a way to help refugees through their art — they paint portraits of Syrian children and give the proceeds to charity. They call it “Painting Syria’s Children: The Refugee Portrait Project.”

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Pastor and humanitarian Eugene Cho visited Syrian refugee tented settlements in Lebanon and Iraq with World Vision.

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Podcast with pastor and humanitarian Eugene Cho

On this edition of the World Vision podcast, pastor and humanitarian Eugene Cho speaks to us about his recent book, Overrated, and his trip to Lebanon and Iraq to visit Syrian refugee tent settlements near the Syria border.

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This podcast, listen to an interview with blogger Kristen Howerton (Rage Against the Minivan) who recently traveled to Iraq and Lebanon with World Vision.

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Podcast with blogger Kristen Howerton (Rage Against the Minivan)

This podcast, listen to an interview with Kristen Howerton, a popular blogger who has been operating Rage Against the Minivan since 2006. She recently traveled with World Vision to Iraq and Lebanon and was generous enough to be interviewed, ironically, in the back of a minivan.

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This podcast we talk with Pastor Dave Schmidgall from National Community Church in Washington, D.C. about meeting refugees in Lebanon and how to put your faith in action here at home.

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Podcast with Pastor Dave Schmidgall from National Community Church

This podcast we talk with Pastor Dave Schmidgall from National Community Church in Washington, D.C. about meeting Syrian refugees in Lebanon and how to put your faith in action here at home.

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Pray for South Sudan: Join us in praying over the people of South Sudan, where armed conflict and food shortages make it very difficult to live right now.

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Hope in hard places: Pray for South Sudan

Join us in praying over the people of South Sudan, where armed conflict and food shortages make it very difficult to live right now.

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Podcast with Hillsong United

This month we talk with JD and Dylon Thomas from Hillsong United about refugees, life on the road, and their new album, “Wonder.”

Christian Faith Stories

Nearly 10,000 children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without parents. This World Refugee Day, meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children.

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World Refugee Day: Moses misses his father

Nearly 10,000 refugee children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without their parents. Meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children who now must wear the shoes of a father for his sisters. Learn how this responsibility weighs on him and how World Vision is helping to look after them.

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Podcast with Beau Wirick, star of ABC’s ‘The Middle’, and FOX News contributor Christopher J. Hale

This podcast we talk with Beau Wirick, an actor on ABC’s “The Middle,” and Christopher Hale, executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.