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Refugee Camps: Syrian Refugees and Multifaith Alliance

refugee camps: The event was organized by Heart to Heart International along with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees, according to NOW Magazine. The volunteers put together 7,5000 hygiene kits which contained toothpaste, nail clippers, soap, hand towels, condoms, washable menstrual pads and other personal hygiene products to send to refugee camps in Turkey. At the historic 69th Regiment Armory in lower Manhattan, Muslim, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists, Christians and Hindus volunteered to help pack care packages for Syrian refugees on June 26. The products were donated by the New York company Henry Schein. According to the Pew Research Center's latest annual study on global restrictions on religion, 24 percent of the 198 countries included in the study had high or very high levels of government restrictions in 2014, which is down from 28 percent in 2013. More Content NowSURVEY SAYSFor the second consecutive year, countries with both government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion decreased. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.