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Article: The heart of God: In response to terrorist attacks, Canada must not exclude the refugee whom God sends to bless us. (vox populi - Justice for all).(Brief Article)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Her name is Fahima. Her home is Afghanistan. She returned to her house one afternoon to discover the house and her six children had been bombed. Body parts were strewn throughout what had once been her yard.
Fahima is a woman of faith. Since that day, she has prayed daily as she fled her land seeking refuge. She lived in the slums of India for five years before being sponsored by a church to come to Canada as a refugee. As life unfolds for her in this country, she continues to be a woman of prayer.
How could a mother remain a person of faith after the slaughter of her children? A logical response would be to abandon God during times of such unfathomable ...