A Shared Humanitarian Agency for All of American Orthodoxy

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International Orthodox Christian Charities was established in 1992 as the official international humanitarian agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America, serving Orthodox Christian jurisdictions across the country rather than any single one of them exclusively, a shared agency spanning the whole of American Orthodoxy from the moment of its founding onward. It focuses exclusively on humanitarian assistance rather than religious activities, providing no funding for church missions such as religious education or missionary work of any kind whatsoever, a limit set at its own founding.

Since its founding it has distributed emergency response, water and sanitation, sustainable livelihoods, food security and health assistance in more than 60 countries across Africa, eastern Europe, the Middle East and the United States and Caribbean, a geographic reach that spans several continents from a single founding mandate limited strictly to humanitarian work rather than evangelism, a distinction the organization itself states plainly as its own operating principle.