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red cres·cent

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Wiktionary

  1. Red Crescentnoun

    A branch of the Red Cross that operates in Muslim countries.

  2. Red Crescentnoun

    The symbol of this branch.

Wikipedia

  1. red crescent

    The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. Within it there are three distinct organisations that are legally independent from each other, but are united within the movement through common basic principles, objectives, symbols, statutes and governing organisations.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of red crescent in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of red crescent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of red crescent in a Sentence

  1. Christoph Horstel:

    Any neutral institution's inspection is highly welcome, since it will prove the Iranian Red Crescent is abiding with regulations to humanitarian aid. War parties' inspections will be clearly rejected.

  2. Sarem Rezaie:

    The cargo will be delivered to the WFP (World Food Programme), which will give it to the Yemeni Red Crescent to distribute it among innocent Yemeni people.

  3. Elizabeth Hoff:

    We need to go in with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent for a door-to-door basement, if there are these cases we need to verify and make sure they get urgent treatment, i sent an immediate request to authorities for more supplies to be brought in. We are asking for mobile clinics and medical teams to be dispatched.

  4. Red Crescent:

    No foreign cash help has been given to the Iranian Red Crescent society. With attention to the inhuman American sanctions, there is no way to send this cash assistance.

  5. Ko Nakata:

    The Red Crescent Society is operating under the Islamic State's control. Why don't we seek Turkey's mediation and give the money for the people affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria? I believe this could be a rational, acceptable option.


Translations for red crescent

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  • रेड क्रीसेंटHindi
  • ہلال ہلالUrdu

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