Aid to the Church in Need PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS NEED YOU Will you help support a Christian refugee family this year? #carrythecross.

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Aid to the Church in Need PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS NEED YOU Will you help support a Christian refugee family this year? #carrythecross

FAITH MATTERS! ‘Aid to the Church in Need is one of the few charities which realises that people cry out for food for their souls as well as for their bodies.’ A missionary priest in Liberia © Aid to the Church in Need

But first... AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED a mission of faith Christians in the UK reaching out to Christians around the world

CHRISTIANS: Syria and Iraq Bullied Insulted Discriminated against Attacked Kidnapped Driven from their homes Murdered Tortured Killed

IF YOU WERE GIVEN 20 MINUTES TO LEAVE …. WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE?

Arabic ‘N’ daubed on a Christian home in Mosul

Northern Iraq – under siege

© CAPNI

Sisters providing urgent assistance © Aid to the Church in Need

How is Aid to the Church in Need making a difference? Aid to the Church in Need benefactors provided a large proportion of aid to to Syrian and Iraqi Christians Food, shelter, medicine, clothes A LIFELINE OF HOPE WILL YOU HELP US this LENT?

WHAT’S LIFE LIKE – DAY TO DAY? Employment © Aid to the Church in Need

Cooking and cleaning © Aid to the Church in Need

What about the children? © Aid to the Church in Need

… and young people? © Aid to the Church in Need

People like to have picture of Jesus, a Cross or Our Lady on their door or on the things around them © Aid to the Church in Need

Everything these young people have is thanks to people like you © Aid to the Church in Need

Where are they living? © Aid to the Church in Need

Cramped and crowded © Aid to the Church in Need

Families – just like us … SYRIA AND IRAQ: Every family has a story

Chronic health problems -a real challenge © Aid to the Church in Need

‘ Abouna’ Samir and ‘Abouna’ Bazi © Aid to the Church in Need

Reaching out – to all in need © Aid to the Church in Need

‘Of course we have hope, we are Christians – we have hope in Jesus’ © Aid to the Church in Need

Giving their lives to God © Aid to the Church in Need

Persecuted Christians NEED YOU - You can reach out THIS LENT – through ACN PRAYER Pray for persecuted Christians Pray for their persecutors INFORMATION Tell their stories ACTION £2,000 WILL HELP A FAMILY FOR A YEAR with food, fuel and clothes £35 WILL HELP A FAMILY FOR A WEEK … how many families can you help? © Aid to the Church in Need

They haven’t been forgotten! Food, clothes, clothes, fuel … even Christmas and Easter gift parcels for children …. © Aid to the Church in Need

Volunteers make up aid parcels © Aid to the Church in Need

One Body in Christ Christian families in Syria and Iraq need YOU If we don’t help them, who will? PLEASE: Pray for them Tell their stories Save them © Aid to the Church in Need / Anton Fric

Christian children in Iraq and Syria send you their love …. and their thanks © Aid to the Church in Need © ACN/Anton Fric

Aid to the Church in Need PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS NEED YOU Will you help support a Christian refugee family this year? #carrythecross