A Demand For Action

A Demand For Action A Demand for Action: From a Social Media Campaign to International Advocacy and Aid Organization It was a grassroots movement that grew spontaneously.

A Demand for Action: From a Social Media Campaign to International Advocacy and Aid Organization

A Demand for Action (ADFA) has its origins when the persecution of Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans and other Middle Eastern minorities had reached a crisis point. In 2014, ISIS extremists invaded the Plains of Nineveh in Northern Iraq and unleashed their reign of terror on the ancestral homelands of the i

ndigenous people of the country. On June 10, when Mosul fell to the terrorist group, an estimated 500,000 civilians fled the city in a panic, among them 200,000 Christians and 200,000 Yazidis. It was time to act and to demand action from the world’s leaders. Led by investigative journalist and human rights activist, Nuri Kino, a group of 25 Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans from 12 different countries launched a massive international social media campaign on July 2, 2014, alerting hundreds of parliamentarians and other leading decision makers to the unfolding tragedy, and demanding that they take forceful action to stop the carnage, and protect these Middle Eastern minorities. The campaign was unique in that we did not represent any political or religious organization. We were, and are still acting as a free non-profit organization of concerned individuals. Following our social media blitz, it was no longer possible for the world’s political leaders to claim ignorance of the existential crisis facing Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs. We also expressed our solidarity with the other minority peoples of Iraq and Syria, including but not limited to Mandeans, Shabaks, Yazidis, and Turkomens, all of whom face similar struggles to safeguard their security and their right to freedom of religion or belief, also to ensure their continuing presence in their ancestral homeland. If we had not acted immediately to demand protection and support for the minorities of Iraq and Syria, they probably would have been exterminated—a tragedy that could still occur, given their declining numbers. And with the extermination of Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs, the legacy of one of the world’s oldest indigenous people—inheritors of one of the world’s most ancient civilizations— would disappear, leaving a stain on humanity’s conscience forever. We are aware that the danger of these minorities being driven from their homelands still persists. The number of Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs in the Middle East has greatly dwindled during the last 20 years. For the first time in history, there are more of them in the worldwide diaspora than in Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Over the years, ADFA (A Demand For Action) grew into an international humanitarian aid organization in addition to maintaining its advocacy role and giving a voice to voiceless persecuted Middle Eastern minorities. We have coordinated refugee aid projects in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Armenia. Currently we are in Warsaw, engaged in the work of assisting thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have fled the Russian invasion and made their way to Poland. And we are still helping refugees in Lebanon and Syria. We invite you to follow our work on our social media channels. Facebook: www.facebook.com/DemandForAction
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Summer is saved for 60 familiesThis summer there was no money left for the food parcels at the Pentecostal Church in Söd...
18/06/2026

Summer is saved for 60 families

This summer there was no money left for the food parcels at the Pentecostal Church in Södertälje. During the school year, every child is guaranteed at least one meal a day. In the summer that meal disappears, and many parents cannot afford to replace it.

So the church reached out. Its deacon, Helen Lind Jaktlund, picked up the phone and called a friend, Nuri Kino, the founder of the charity ADFA. He said yes.

ADFA’s board granted the church 60 grocery gift cards, 500 kronor each, for families the church already supports.

”It is the families with children who need help most during the summer,” says Helen Lind Jaktlund. ”This is our contribution to giving them a more bearable summer.”

It does not solve everything. But for 60 families, this summer just became a little lighter.

Original reporting: Jenny Folkesson, Länstidningen

Södertälje Pingstförsamling LT.se

Support for children's summer activities in Skärholmen, StockholmWe know this is a small effort. We also know it can see...
16/06/2026

Support for children's summer activities in Skärholmen, Stockholm

We know this is a small effort. We also know it can seem unexpected that we are helping children in Sweden, one of the wealthier countries in the world.

This summer we are working with local organisations to help cover the cost of sports and leisure for children whose families cannot afford it. We are also looking at ways to help some families with food, so they can collect groceries from local shops.

The summer holidays add to the strain that many families already live with. During the school year, children eat lunch at school. When the schools close, every one of those meals falls back on the family, and for those who are already stretched thin, that is a real cost.

This photo was taken in Skärholmen, just outside Stockholm, at an athletics session we helped make possible. The rain came down hard that afternoon. The children came anyway.

Our thanks to everyone who makes this possible, here in Sweden and in the other parts of the world where we keep working.

Thanks Jeanette Sténson Hallgren for arranging this.

14/06/2026

Facing Forced Deportation from Sweden After Fleeing Genocide

ADFA's Nuri Kino, who attended the graduation ceremony in Skövde, the Swedish city where Matyas and his family live, wrote the following on social media:

"Waseem and his younger brother Matyas are facing deportation from Sweden.

Those of you who follow ADFA's work, and mine, know that they fled genocide in Iraq more than a decade ago. Last December, they were arrested by the Swedish Border Police and held in a detention centre for four months.

When they were released, Matyas managed, against all odds, to graduate from high school. But now he is being forced to leave the country.

He and Waseem could be detained again at any moment and placed on a plane to Iraq. Because of the conflict in the Middle East, flights are currently not operating. That could change quickly.

I have been thinking back on the hundreds of asylum cases I have been involved in. In the early 2000s, many unaccompanied children disappeared. Some were abused by paedophiles, including at one of the Swedish Migration Agency's facilities. In 2010, I wrote a letter to the CEOs of Sveriges Radio, Sweden's public broadcaster. I gave up assignments as an investigative journalist in order to hide refugees. I warned that a genocide was coming. Refugees were being forcibly deported there. Tragically, I was proven right, and that was where my journey as an activist began.

So no, the asylum chaos is nothing new. It has always been a lottery, and the system must be rebuilt from the ground up. Now, the current government, like every government before it, has made a grave miscalculation.

The exemption intended to stop the deportation of teenagers is affecting the wrong people. I hope that one of the ministers, or one of their civil servants, finds a calculator before Waseem and Matyas are deported.

In the meantime, we are frantically searching for a way forward for them — perhaps in Canada."

Starting today, ADFA is helping families with children in Sweden.For many children, the school lunch is a reliable meal....
11/06/2026

Starting today, ADFA is helping families with children in Sweden.

For many children, the school lunch is a reliable meal. When school closes for the summer, that meal is gone. The cost falls on families that were already struggling, and both the Swedish state and the country’s children’s organizations have warned about the gap.

We cannot reach every child. But beginning today, we are turning to our donors for help, with a text message going out to supporters around the country. The donations pay for meals and for summer activities that children would not otherwise have.

Our work abroad goes on at the same time. We are still shipping aid to Lebanon, documenting abuses against minorities in Syria, and working with other human rights organizations to give a voice to survivors of massacres in Africa. What is new is the work here at home.

For Swedish donors: Swish 9008905
For international donors, PayPal: [email protected]

Congratulations to His Beatitude Mar Paul III Nona, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Barekh Mor! البطرير...
29/05/2026

Congratulations to His Beatitude Mar Paul III Nona, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Barekh Mor!


البطريركية الكلدانية Chaldean Patriarchate
Chaldean Press The Chaldean News Middle Eastern Christian | مسيحيو الشرق الأوسط Catholic News Agency Nuri Seyhan Kino Tidningen Dagen Kyrkans Tidning LT.se Christian Youhana

29/05/2026

The fields around Sinjar look empty. They are not. Beneath the soil, and inside the houses still standing, ISIS buried thousands of hidden bombs before it was driven out.

Hana Khider walks into those fields every morning. She is a Yazidi woman from Sinjar, in Iraq’s Nineveh province, and she leads a team of women who clear the land one meter at a time. They search for the wires and triggers that ISIS left in the same place where, in August 2014, those fighters tried to erase the Yazidi people from the earth. Here, a single mistake does not grant a second one.

Consider what that means. ISIS came to Sinjar to kill the men and enslave the women. The women it failed to break are now the ones kneeling in the dirt, taking apart what it left behind, so that families can come home and farm land that was meant to stay deadly.

It is the oldest story in this part of the world, told again on the plains of Nineveh. People who were meant to disappear refuse to.

Khider works with the Mines Advisory Group, part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Her story is told in ”Into the Fire,” directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel and produced with Grain Media for National Geographic and the Nobel Prize.

It is a film about the slowest, most patient form of courage. Watch it.

26/05/2026

The filmmaker and reporter team Daniel Allott and Jordan Allott went to Syria on a mission together with ADFA to explore the situation of ethnic and religious minorities and indigenous people in Syria. See the full report via the link in the comments.

Yesterday’s news from Bab Touma, the predominantly Christian part of Damascus, made this reporting important once again. In a rally, chants of Eid takbirs were heard while marchers moved through Bab Touma. What is alarming is that similar scenes were reported in Alawite neighborhoods in Latakia and Jableh yesterday and today.

The world must open its eyes to the reality of Syria. Behind the headlines claiming that things are moving in the right direction lies the daily reality faced by Syrians.

We will continue to raise awareness about the situation and continue advocating for a Syria for all Syrians.

Nuri Kino Cited in Canadian Report on Syria’s MinoritiesThe article, written by award-winning Canadian journalist Susan ...
22/05/2026

Nuri Kino Cited in Canadian Report on Syria’s Minorities

The article, written by award-winning Canadian journalist Susan Korah for The Catholic Register, highlights growing concern over the worsening situation for Christians and other minorities in Syria.

ADFA’s founder Nuri Kino is cited warning about escalating persecution and insecurity facing Christians, Druze and Alawites in the country.

The article examines criticism directed at Canada’s ambassador to Syria, Gregory Galligan, after he presented an optimistic assessment of the post-Assad government before Canada’s House of Commons. Activists, survivors and humanitarian organizations argue that such statements ignore the reality faced by minorities on the ground.

Kino spoke about a foiled bomb attack targeting a Christian funeral in Aleppo on May 13.

“We are deeply concerned, and outraged,” Kino told The Catholic Register. “We called our contacts in Syria immediately and spoke to two witnesses to the incident. Now we can only thank Our Lord that the bomb did not detonate.”

He also warned that Syria’s ancient Christian community may disappear entirely unless the international community acts.

“What’s happening now is ethno-religious cleansing. A slow systematic removal of minorities through fear, violence and dispossession. The world must wake up now and demand stronger protection for Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities.”

The article also reports on massacres targeting Alawite and Druze communities, widespread displacement, collapsing healthcare and growing accusations that Western governments are relying too heavily on the Syrian regime’s own narrative while independent witnesses describe an increasingly dangerous reality for minorities. Link to article in comment.

12/05/2026

Nuri Kino is heading to the IRF Summit in Casablanca, Morocco, this July. It is his second invitation to the Summit this year.

In February, he addressed the Summit’s gathering in Washington, where more than 1,500 delegates from 87 countries had traveled to take part. His remarks drew a standing ovation. He was one of only 82 speakers entrusted with the podium. He spoke about displacement, about his own flight as a child, and about refugee children failed by asylum systems that promise due process. He laid out what needs to change.

In Casablanca, Nuri will speak on human rights, religious and ethnic persecution, and the relationship between social media, traditional newsrooms, and lawmakers.

We at ADFA are proud that our president, a decorated investigative journalist and human rights advocate, continues to carry this work to audiences around the world.

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