Doubletake: The last safe place

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Last week we brought you the story of Hawler Sheikhe, a Syrian woman who returned in 2023 to one of the world’s most chaotic countries on unfinished family business. She went with a Christian humanitarian aid group called the Free Burma Rangers. WORLD correspondent Caleb Welde went with them.This week, the story of the rest of that trip. They went a year before the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known as HTS, overthrew the brutal government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last month. But northeast Syria is still one of the most chaotic places in the world. And, as Caleb found out for himself, very dangerous.Until Assad fell, the West had largely ignored the conflict in Syria. However this turns out, the people Caleb met there will likely remain right where they are now: stuck in a simmering conflict with no place to go.Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate (http://wng.org/donate).

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0:00.0	From World Radio, this is Double Take.
0:04.5	I'm Les Silers.
0:06.0	Recently, world correspondent Caleb Weldy brought you the story of Hauler Sheikh.
0:11.0	She's a Syrian refugee who fled to Iraq after ISIS killed her father in 2014.
0:16.0	In Iraq, she became a Christian, along with her mother and sister.
0:20.0	My mind exploded. I was just like studying the Bible after they gave it to me.
0:24.8	And then Holler returned to Syria with the Free Burma Rangers.
0:28.3	That's a Christian aid group that goes into places too dangerous for most NGOs.
0:32.6	They went into Syria in November of 2023.
0:36.0	It was less than a month after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.
0:40.1	Caleb went with him. Haller went to share Christ with an uncle who threatened to have her and her
0:45.1	family killed for becoming Christians. She knocked on his door the first evening the Free Burma Rangers
0:50.0	spent in Syria. He opened it. When he saw me, he just slapped me.
0:55.0	And, yeah, he kicked me out, just go out.
0:58.6	But she refused to go.
1:00.4	He threatened her with a knife.
1:02.2	She shared Jesus.
1:03.7	King Jesus, not the prophet Jesus.
1:06.0	And she ended up staying for two hours with her uncle, aunt, and three kids.
1:10.3	Then she left.
1:11.6	Came back to the compound.
1:12.6	She could hardly believe she was still alive.
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