Families in refugee camps are safe - for now - from any immediate danger, but dropping temperatures pose another serious threat. Little David has not experienced many Christmases, but he and many other refugee children know this one will be different from any other they have known. ‘I do not think Father Christmas will come this year,’ he said, ‘because he does not know where we are living now, and we are always changing places. Father Christmas knows our house in B. and he will go there, and there is nobody who will tell him where we are now. My father told us that all our neighbours have left and our village is empty.’ Thirty-eight European countries are receiving asylum applications from families. See also: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/december-19th-2014/christian-refugees-in-iraq-face-up-to-a-bleak-christmas/