Posted on 04/08/2016 6:10:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
Erbil, Iraq, Apr 7, 2016 / 03:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Six hundred Christian children whose families fled ISIS violence in 2014 have lost their homes, schools, sometimes friends, sanitary living conditions and the stability of a normal life.
However, despite their many losses, there's one thing they never left behind and which continues to grow stronger everyday: their faith.
When it comes to the question of how to persevere in the faith - and pass it on with terrorists just a few miles away - one woman named Carin has developed a unique form of catechesis that she is teaching to displaced Christian children in Iraq.
"I think that children have the capacity to worship Jesus, to contemplate," Carin told CNA in an April 7 interview in Erbil.
Her classes aren't intended to just teach the kids how to pray, but rather to provide them the opportunity "to meet with Jesus, to give and receive his love" on a personal level, she said.
A French native, Carin is a volunteer at a prefabricated school run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in the Iraqi city of Erbil, which provides education to 600 displaced Christian children and is sustained by funding from charitable organizations such as Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA).
Most of the children attending the school are from either Mosul or Qaraqosh, the former Christian capitol of Iraqi Kurdistan, and are among the 120,000 families who fled Qaraqosh when ISIS attacked in August 2014.
The majority of those who fled, the sisters included, came to Erbil and are now living in what they refer to as "containers" inside refugee camps the city's Christian suburb, Ankawa.
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These are the refugees who won’t be coming to the U.S. We only accept Muslims and discriminate against our Christan brothers and sisters. There ought to be a Christian protest of this policy by Obama and his Muslim cabinet, but we all know that won’t happen.
Well, Trump has pointed out this very thing.
May God bless and protect them. Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Myriam's Story and SongMyriam is an Iraqi Christian whose family had to flee their home near Mosul when ISIS took control of their town in mid 2014. They fled to Irbil, in the relatively safe area of the autonomous region of Kurdistan where they live as refugees. In the above video, she tells her story to Essam Nagy, the host of the popular SAT-7 children's program called "Why is that?" when he visited Irbil at Christmas 2014. Read the story:
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I had the privilege of meeting Essam Nagy last year when he came to a Baltimore area church to tell Myriam's story, and to explain his Christian ministry via satellite to children caught up in the strife of the Middle East. Essam's show, "Why is That?" is the Christian-themed "Mr. Rogers" for children in the Middle East. The kids who call in to his show requesting prayers for their friends caught up in refugee camps are prayer warriors to put most adults to shame.
Essam Nagy, and the children of the Middle East, can use our prayers. Check out the link to the satellite broadcaster, Sat-7.
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What idiots! Don’t they know all they have to do hold die-ins and create hashtags until somebody makes them some safe spaces?
Yeah, think about that. Our special snowflakes are doing just that because their feelings are hurt over something somebody said. These precious Iraqi children are literally living moment to moment. Ugh. Fundamentally transformed . . .
Innocense.
Indeed, FRiend!
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