Image: In the background, refugees carry warm blankets, which are essential to keep them warm in winter.
Our relief teams in Iraq tell us that it's not only Christian refugees who ask for prayer, but also Muslims and Yazidis, because they feel that only God can truly help them in their desperate situation.
Especially when a local pastor goes out with the relief team, many refugees ask the pastor to pray for them and take care of their spiritual needs. And many times they experience healing and answers to their prayers.
For example, a Yazidi family asked for prayers for their son who had head cancer. Four weeks later, when the pastor returned with the relief team, the family reported that the doctor had declared the boy healthy.
Mother of kidnapped girl cured of chronic headaches
In the same family, there was also a woman who suffered from chronic headaches. She was afraid to go to the doctor because she feared she also had cancer. Her daughter with her first husband was a very beautiful girl and she had been taken by Islamic State. When the pastor prayed for peace and healing, the woman said the headache disappeared and she now hopes it will not return.
The refugees in Iraq have many physical needs, but they also have many spiritual needs and long for help and people who can provide them with spiritual care and support. The church is allowed to help, not only by distributing emergency aid, but also by meeting people's spiritual needs.
- On average, it costs around 150 DKK to provide a refugee family with water, food, kitchenware, hygiene items and medicine for a week.
- On average, it costs around DKK 652 to provide a refugee family with water, food, kitchenware, hygiene items and medicine for a month.
- On average, it costs around 1086 DKK to ensure a refugee family has warm clothes, shoes, mattresses, blankets and fuel this winter.
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Facts: Muslims, Yazidis, illness and healing
While the Bible is full of testimonies of healings and miracles were an essential part of Jesus' ministry, the Quran offers no hope of supernatural healing for the sick. Therefore, when Muslims are sick, they often turn to Christians and seek intercession. Not only in the Middle East, but also in Danmark churches have experienced Muslims seeking intercession for illnesses. Among the Yazidis, the sheikh caste and fakirs are said to be able to heal, but as the previously very closed Yazidi community has begun to open up to the outside world, the Yazidis can also seek healing in church.
