We are stunned (and humbled) by the overwhelming number of help requests we received in 2022. The ability to find safe solutions for so many of the threatened nonbelievers who knocked on our door is a testament to the hard work of our small team of Secular Rescue caseworkers. There is no quit here, not when lives are at stake. It’s not just immigration impediments and xenophobic governments that stand in the way of safe refugee mobility; the larger-scale world issues that affect us all in various ways are also obstacles. The fierce repression of ex-Muslims and freethinkers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), our primary region of focus, continued unabated in 2022, with global problems wreaking havoc on the ability of threatened atheists to board flights or cross borders for fresh starts in other, more tolerant nations. Also hindering the ability of people to flee to safety were the lingering global pandemic, rampant inflation and food insecurity, a brutal war in Ukraine and its resultant waves of refugees fleeing for safety, and …