Imagine bringing your kids to hide with you in a cattle truck, then walking 189 miles at night with them to get across the border, knowing you all will be killed if caught by the government. Ibrahim and Turkiye with their ten kids did this just five weeks ago to escape oppression in Raqqa, Syria.
Terrifying, but you might really do it - if your own city government used stoning, beheading, and mutilating to enforce their laws.
Maybe we're a bit de-sensitized to this sort of chaos. It seems bizarre to us in the West. To get perspective, I imagine what America would do if 19,000 of its citizens were killed in the last two years. It happened in Iraq - and for Iraq that's a much higher proportion of its people.
This author has been reporting from the area for years. She says, "Over and over again I hear from long-term Christian workers that . . there is an openness to the gospel like they have never seen before.”
Some Middle Easterners have become willing to re-consider their historic assumptions.
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