Her mother is a prostitute. And nine-year old Sandra is a casuality of her nation's sex tourism industry. She is immediately recognized in Thailand as a luk-kreung, that is, a "half-child" born of a poor Thai mother and an absent Western father.
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Jin Sang awoke, wondering where she was and how long she'd been unconscious. Her head throbbed with pain, and she could hardly open her left eye. She could feel cold metal cutting into her wrists, restraining her to a chair. As Jin fully regained an awareness of her surroundings, she also realized that a uniformed man stood over her—the source, she now had no doubt, of her pain and her blackout.
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On a busy street corner in the center of Kitale, Kenya, I met Christine Lukanda, wife, mother of two teens, and owner of a colorful fruit stand. Her tables hold small mountains of mangoes, bananas, oranges, lemons and other locally grown fruits and veggies.
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Twenty bicycles. Twenty eager men of God. I was in Hyderabad, India, and part of my reason for being there was this big moment. It was the kind of day that makes me love my job with Heaven's Family.
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Turn around! Go back! Those emphatic words left us stunned. Our team had been traveling for two days to join a gathering of persecuted Christians in Kandhamal, a small city in the Indian state of Orissa. Now we were being turned back less than five miles from our destination. The pastor at the other end of the cell phone told us that over 100 police officers were waiting just ahead, ready to stop us. He also informed us that 1,500 persecuted believers—20 times as many as we expected—had poured in from the surrounding villages.
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Susanna's face radiated with joy. And it was no wonder. For her, our arrival marked a new beginning. I was in Hyderabad, India, to visit a community of people affected by leprosy that Heaven's Family has been helping in various ways. Early last year, for example, through a child-sponsorship program, we opened a school for the ostracized, but healthy, children of those afflicted with leprosy. We've also opened a medical clinic just to serve the hundreds of people in Hyderabad who have the cruel disease.
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"If you try to escape, you'll be killed!" With those words, Kutty's older brother bolted the bedroom door shut, and Kutty slumped to the floor in pain. His brother's brutal blows ceased only after he finally agreed to read the Qur'an. That first assault only foreshadowed what lay in Kutty's future.
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Awakened by panicked shouts outside his prison cell, Maung peered through the bars of his cell window to see torches of fire reaching high into the nighttime sky. The entire prison compound was ablaze. Thinking of his family members far away, Maung began to pray for deliverance. "Lord, I'm here for obeying you and bringing Bibles into China! Save me!"
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Everywhere I traveled in Kenya, I witnessed small economic miracles that have changed the lives of widows who were once desperately poor. All have been helped though Heaven's Family micro-loans, which have enabled them to lift themselves to self-sufficiency through their own enterprising small businesses.
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