Students raise $800K for women's hospital

When Christian college students set out to help build a hospital for women and children in Syria, they didn’t need a miracle to raise beyond enough money in a single day.

The students were attending an annual conference called Passion, a global gathering of college-age students that attracted 40,000 attendees over the past weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas.

The passionate youth at the arena events, and others online watching the live-stream, donated $785,000 on the first day of the campaign alone.

The $811,813 raised in two days was more than the $575,000 needed for “Project Harak...