Tag: CHARITIES

Chicago Faith-Based Groups Join With IOCC To Deliver Books For Local Children

OCP- May 10, 2014

May 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Joined by wide-eyed youngsters from some of the city's most impoverished Southside neighborhoods, religious leaders gathered at the Ray ... Read More

IOCC Responds to Victims of Tornadoes in the South

OCP- May 4, 2014

4/5/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The powerful spring storms that spawned a cluster of damaging tornadoes this past week have affected the lives of millions ... Read More

IOCC Assists Displaced Syrians Fleeing Embattled Kessab

OCP- April 8, 2014

8/4/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Intense fighting this past week in Kessab, a predominantly Armenian Christian town in northwestern Syria, forced hundreds of families to ... Read More

IOCC Transforming Lives with Clean and Safe Water

OCP- April 2, 2014

April 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Access to clean and safe water can make the difference between sickness and health, poverty and self-sufficiency.  Yet more ... Read More

Community Kitchen Addresses Malnutrition

OCP- March 18, 2014

March 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Swirls of fragrant steam billow above large steel cauldrons as five middle-aged women stir thick, bubbling yellow lentil soup ... Read More

Building Resilient Communities in the Balkans

OCP- March 18, 2014

March 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Fifteen years after NATO bombings and many ensuing conflicts in Kosovo, poverty and isolation continue to be a challenge ... Read More

Syria’s Healthcare System Latest War Casualty

OCP- February 27, 2014

27/2/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Heavy fighting in Syria's embattled Idlib province forced Khaled, 5, and his family to flee their home and settle in ... Read More

IOCC Assists in Evacuation of Syrians Fleeing Homs

OCP- February 27, 2014

February 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Syrian civilians evacuated from the embattled city of Homs under a UN-negotiated cease-fire are being aided by International Orthodox ... Read More

Healing The Hidden Wounds Of War In Syria

OCP- January 23, 2014

January - 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Joumana will never forget the day she, her husband and two children abandoned their home in the war-torn ... Read More

IOCC Delivers Winter Relief To Greece’s Most Vulnerable

OCP- January 14, 2014

January 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As snow and nighttime temperatures fall in portions of Greece, the country's most vulnerable – the elderly, people with ... Read More

IOCC Responds To Victims

OCP- November 13, 2013

13/11/13 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Just four days after the most powerful tropical storm ever to make landfall blasted across the Philippines with wind speeds ... Read More