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Church in Kurdistan-Iraq Helps Rebuild New Orleans
Parish; U.S. Relief Agency Bridges Partnership
TULSA, Okla., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Aid is
coming from a small church in Iraq to hurricane
victims in the United States. The 300-member
Christian church in Iraq's northern Kurdistan
Governance is collecting money to help the Adullam
Christian Fellowship church -- a New Orleans church
hit hard by hurricane Katrina.
We saw pictures of the devastation on television,"
said Rev. Hazem, pastor of the two-year old Kurdzman
Church in Iraq. "We were motivated to help the
people of New Orleans rebuild so we called our
friends at World Compassion to see how to get money
to Louisiana."
World Compassion has been working in Iraq since U.S.
forces entered Iraq. The president and founder of
the non-governmental relief agency, Dr. Terry Law,
helped start The Kurdzman Church in Iraq.
"I am overjoyed at the spirit of this little
church," said Dr. Law. "This action demonstrates the
love and compassion of Iraqi Christians. It is also
something they could never have done under Saddam
Hussein's regime."
The pastor of Adullam Christian Fellowship was
equally surprised that a church in Iraq was reaching
out to help. "We have been destroyed," said Randy
Millett, head of the devastated congregation in St.
Bernard's Parish, one of the hardest hit areas of
the flooding. Millett's uncle and aunt drowned in
their home and his brother and mother-in-law are
still missing. "My wife's mother was in St. Rita's
Nursing Home where so many elderly perished. We
still don't know if she is dead or alive."
Millett's Parishioners are spread across Louisiana,
Texas and various other states. "We've been
destroyed; but, we will rebuild," he said. "And we
are grateful for our friends around the world --
including those in Iraq -- who are standing with us
during this difficult time."
About World Compassion
World Compassion is an international relief
organization based in Tulsa, Okla., that conducts
humanitarian aid projects and promotes education,
health, and religious freedom. The group was
instrumental in influencing Afghanistan to
incorporate the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights in their constitution in 2004. Today, World
Compassion is circulating a petition inside Iraq and
on the Internet urging Iraqi officials to sign the
human rights declaration. World Compassion is asking
for people outside Iraq to sign the petition at
http://www.worldcompassion.tv .
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