The projects are not only humanitarian but also church-building
In most project countries, partner organizations of the Danish European Commission have the opportunity to collaborate with local authorities on selecting the people in need of emergency aid or who may benefit from participating in a development project.
As a result, persecuted Christians often work well together with the authorities.
If cooperation with the authorities is not possible, the support is mediated to underground Christians, who also typically help other vulnerable people.
Christians care for and provide dignity to minorities and outcasts - in countries where there are no welfare benefits like in Denmark.
Skepticism, prejudice and hostility towards Christians can often be broken down when members of the majority population see how Christians are making a positive difference.
In some cases, the church can gain a platform and a voice in society through relief and development projects. Some become interested in learning more about the Christian faith.
Christina: "It was a horrible life, and a pain to live as a reject." Top image: Christina with her children and bags of food on their kitchen table. The church's social aid work...
Lena says: "Several times the authorities tried to remove my children, who lived in a dirty, damp and cold apartment, often without food. So I always had fresh fruit...
Winter is unusually harsh in the Middle East right now. The citizens of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel have had the rare pleasure of playing with snow. For the thousands of internally displaced people...
Zanib comes from a non-Christian family in Pakistan. She lives in the village of Shah Kot, is 12 years old and has two brothers and three sisters. Zanib and her siblings go to...
Henrik Ertner Rasmussen from the Danish European Mission has just visited Iraq and overseen the relief work. Here he met Medhat, who miraculously avoided being killed by Islamic State.
Henrik Ertner Rasmussen from the Danish European Mission has just returned from Iraq. He met the Yazidi Aziz, who told his story of fleeing the Islamic State and how he received emergency aid...
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