refugees

I'm here to learn more about the challenges confronted by Syrian refugees, and the organizations working to help them.

About 30 kilometers outside Syria's western border, the Lebanon town of Zahle is full of refugees. Many make it across the Syria-Lebanon border and not much farther.

More than 1.3 million Syrians have fled the war-torn country, according to the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Amid the horrors of war and persecution in the Middle East and elsewhere, swelling ranks of displaced Christians are crying out for help even while the media spotlight often shines elsewhere.

The number of Syrians who have fled their war-torn country has now topped the 1 million mark.

Armenian authorities are trying to find ways to speed the exit from Syria and make the adjustment to life there easier.

In a poor gypsy neighborhood of Istanbul, a Syrian Orthodox refugee from Syria says he worked as a dentist in Aleppo as long as he could after fighting broke out in 2011; he finally fled when lack of food, electricity, water, and constant fear of sniper-fire and kidnapping of Christians made life too dangerous.

The recent horrors of finding yet another mass grave in an Aleppo canal are part of what's driving more people toward Syria's borders.

68-year-old Maly moved in the highest echelons of Cambodian society, worked in fields under the Khmer Rouge, traversed Cambodia’s jungle with two young children in tow, was captured in a Thai prison and separated from her children, and was exiled to Long Beach as a refugee. Now she is working to create the only audio recording of the Bible in Khmer.