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Middle Eastern Christian families FIND SAFE HAVENS after years of CONSTANT DANGER

“You have three options: convert to Islam and get your properties back, leave the Islamic State for good and your properties will be owned by Islamic State, or be killed.” This was the stark threat given to Rashel*, an Iraqi Christian in her 50s, by Islamic State (IS) extremist fighters when they entered her hometown in the Plains of Nineveh in 2014. To deny Christ was unthinkable. Amidst gunshots and

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