People help people
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English 1. Open Doors
The employees and partners of Open Doors are often persecuted Christians themselves. It is not uncommon for their service to put them in additional danger. Because in order to help other persecuted Christians, they have to be where the need is greatest.
2. Major rescue operation by Germany in 2014
IS killed men and abducted women. Zeytun Alsilo already had a tailor shop in her homeland in northern Iraq. But in August 2014, everything changed in the life of the Yazidi extended family. Militias of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) attacked her village and killed almost all the men. I also found Alsilo's father among them. Their mothers and brothers were able to escape. Zeytun Alsilo and her sisters were kidnapped and enslaved.
A humanitarian admission program was decided in Baden-Württemberg. The special contingent included 1,000 women and children who were brought to Germany in 2015 and distributed among various municipalities. Particular attention was paid to people with a high risk of developing trauma-related disorders.
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) knows what this fear can do in the refugee camps. The head of the Institute for Transcultural Health Research accompanied the approximately 1,100 women and children who came to Baden-Württemberg via the special contingent. Professor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan specializes in traumatology and heads the Institute for Transcultural Health Research at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW).
This rescue was carried out by people at great risk. There was a possibility of losing your own life. In memory of this year, a day has been set in June 2024 to look back on the big event. The rescuers and the rescued met in great gratitude.
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/jesidische-frauen-in-bw-100.html
3. People help people. What does God's Word tell us?
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27 (ESV)
“Who is actually one of my fellow human beings?” Jesus answered with a story.
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luke 10:33
(ESV).
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. Luke 10:33 (ESV)
The robbers are a symbol of all human life. People passed on without paying any attention and left the wounded man lying there. Then one of the despised Samaritans came. He saw him, felt sorry for him and felt sorry for him. Compassion produces mercy, leads to charity.
See – hear – act:
The blessing began. The Good Samaritan poured oil and wine on his wounds - and bandaged him, lifted him onto his animal and took him to an inn. He cared for and paid for him. He said to the innkeeper: Take care of him and make him healthy! If there is not enough money, I will pay you the rest on my return journey.
4. What is the result of the help?
It is gratitude and the help becomes a role model. The act remains in our memories. It will be written down, shared and published. Information is very important! The information leads to reaction and action!
Maybe we would say: If I had known, I would have helped!
Author: Edith Waechter
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