Posted on 10/27/2020 1:42:13 AM PDT by xomething
When the so-called Islamic State (IS) took over their town, Qaraqosh in northern Iraq, Mathi and his family had no choice but to flee. He, his wife Nazik and their six children fled to safety – they knew that their Christian faith made them extremely vulnerable.
Five years later, thanks to support from Christian charity Open Doors, they have been able to return home.
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My name is Mathi Habib Khodor and I have six children. In 2014 we were forcibly displaced from our city Qaraqosh (by Islamic State). But in 2017 our city was liberated.
When I returned to my city for the first time I cried. My beautiful city was destroyed and deserted. I have no words to describe how I felt. I thought: ‘How can we ever live here again?’
But you enabled us to restore our house. Our house that’s full of memories. Islamic State tried to erase us Christians from this area, but because of you we could return. My city was dead, but it is alive again.
You helped us to show our children that they’re not alone in this world, that there are people who care about them, that there is still humanity in this world.
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