Operation Compassion Helping Iraqi Christians
Through a recent partnership with a new non-profit agency, Operation Compassion, an independent benevolent organization with roots in the Church of God, is able to ship product into Iraq, more specifically, into the city of Erbil. Erbil is located about 55 miles east of Mosul and has a permanent population of about 1.5 million. Erbil is also the largest and the capital city of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Erbil, as a city, dates back to 6000 BC.