International Women's Day -some people celebrated yesterday, and yet so many women did not. My work in the Middle East, North Africa, India (and more recently Mexico) has revealed such deep wounds in the hearts of women over prejudice (and outright abuse and sometimes murder) over their gender. Just yesterday I received a very sad email from Pakistan that a man murdered his 7 day old infant daughter because she wasn't a boy. The mother is absolutely heartbroken.
St. Edith Stein said, 'The world doesn't need what we have, it needs what we are.' This simple statement needs to be preached in the Middle East, North Africa, India, China and Central America.
My book, 'The Holiness of Womanhood' is bringing both healing and conversion in these lands where women are not respected or loved. This week I received a personal email from the Christians in Afghanistan who received my books sharing many miracles of grace from them. Unfortunately, I cannot share details of this for safety reasons, but here is a copy of the Dari translation (used in Afghanistan) that we sent in October/November. There is a great need to reprint this book (as well as 'Out of the Darkness') in Dari for the hidden Christians in Afghanistan.
During LENT we are called to almsgiving -would YOU please consider a donation to this cause? I will need several thousand dollars to reprint both books and get them transported secretly into their country. In honor of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (yesterday), why don't you honor your mother by donating to this cause so that another's mother won't be killed simply for being a women.
Yes, from the stories I hear from the field -God is mysteriously using this book to totally change the hearts of men in the Middle East. It is actually preventing abuse and death. It is CHANGING the Middle East!
To donate to this work to help Afghani women, please either send a donation directly to me through PayPal 'friends and family' -or see this GoFundMe:
And please pray that all women in the world may one day come to see and know in their hearts the deep dignity and gifts with which God created them.
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