DONATE NOW Emergency Earthquake Response & Relief The earthquake in Turkey and Northern Syria has claimed the lives of over 55,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Fida is responding to this urgent need by helping earthquake survivors through church partners in Turkey. Several churches operate in the earthquake area and are providing much needed relief. Fida’s partners with a denomination in Turkey that has 42 congregations across the country. Several local parishes operate in the earthquake area, and are involved in the relief work. The denomination sent help soon after the earthquake hit [...]

DONATE NOW Emergency Earthquake Response & Relief The destruction has been widespread, and the deaths continue to mount – surpassing 5,000 as of this writing. That count is certain to multiply in the hours and days ahead. The World Health Organization has suggested fatalities could reach 20,000. (Update 02/13/2023 - more than 33, 0000 deaths reported)  Remember, it is also winter there. When the initial earthquake occurred in the middle of the night yesterday (02/06/2023), the temperatures were hovering around freezing and it was raining. It will again dip below freezing tonight as rescue workers race the [...]

DONATE NOW Emergency Earthquake Response & Relief Over 100 hours after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and several large aftershocks caused mass devastation in both Turkey and Syria, there seemed to be no hope left of finding any survivors still in the rubble. Then, in Iskenderun, rescuers pulled out a family of six — all alive — and reunited them with their son, who wasn’t in the building at the time of the collapse. Rescue workers, weary from the physically and emotionally grueling work over the past five days, embraced each other and cried at the sight [...]