Displaced Iraqis pray during a worship service at a refugee center in
Erbil, Iraq. Among the Christian minority in the Middle East, prayer is
often the only means of overcoming the ravages of war, an indigenous
ministry leader said. An Iraqi woman from Mosul said that after her
family paid a ransom for the return of their kidnapped brother, he fled
the country. He eventually made it to Switzerland, where he took refuge
in a phone booth one winter night. After he prayed for rescue from the
cold, an Egyptian pastor happened by and took him into his home for a
week. He now serves the church there, while his sister and the rest of
the family had to flee Iraq after the Islamic State seized their
property. The indigenous ministry has taught the sister who prayed for
her brother to embroider and stitch, giving her hope for making a living
wherever she may land.
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