In Today's Hotline:

Central America: Hurricane Felix
Iraq: Helping Those Displaced by War
Sudan: Flood Recovery
Afghanistan: A Place to Call Home
US: UMCOR Sager Brown - Flood Buckets Are Still Needed

Please pray for the many in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala that are weathering the fierce winds and rains of Hurricane Felix. UMCOR is monitoring the situation and contacting our partners in these areas as communication permits.

Please help UMCOR in its anticipated response by giving to Hurricanes 2007, UMCOR Advance #982511.

UMCOR is helping Action for Churches Together partners to meet the immediate needs of displaced Iraqi refugees in Syria by providing essential food and hygiene items.

About 2,910 Iraqi families will receive three months of supplies including necessary food items such as cooking oil, salt, sugar, tuna, chickpeas, lentils, beans, rice, corn and pasta. The families will also receive hygiene kits that include laundry soap, antiseptic solution, bathing soap, toothpaste and more to improve their well being.

Iraqi refugees are facing dire conditions—they are living on limited resources and are deprived of clean water and live under tight curfews and travel restrictions. The rising sectarian conflict has created a lack of security and fear among many Iraqis who h

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