Mesopotamia Relief Foundation

Our organization's president, Sam Sweeney, regularly writes about the situation of Christians in the Middle East:

• A three-part series on the use of Aramaic in Syria and Iraq today:

  • Part One
  • Part Two
  • Part Three

• An essay on the political situation of Christians in Syria's northeast

• The story of the village church of Tel Hormiz, one of the villages where we work

• A commemoration of the genocide that targeted Christians in the region a hundred years ago

• The Christians of Raqqa and their life under ISIS

• The threats to Christians during Turkey's invasion of 2019