By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Gabriela Philips and Gerald Babanezhad)

Story 1: This Church Knows
As I (Gaby) walked into Jamila’s home, I knew something was seriously wrong. Her usually cheerful self was hiding under puffy eyes and a somber mood. I did not see any of her colorful Kurdish outfits, just black — black robe, black shoes, black memories from a past that, as a refugee, she wanted to keep buried.
Since the mosque mass shootings in New Zealand three days before, her locked-tight grief and fear suddenly now ran loose, untamed. When words failed her, a…

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