America, Jesus, and Me the Refugee: I was a Refugee and I have a Testimony to Share

by WRK

Overview

In today's political and social climate, there is much confusion about immigration, Islam phobia, and racism. America, Jesus, and Me the Refugee is a book that carries the first-hand testimony of a family, who immigrated as religious refugees to the US from the Middle East. Their perspective is that of many, who found freedom, shelter, security, and opportunity in the land of the free, the United States of America.
Mouhannad Moses presents a compelling argument, which shows very explicitly the entanglement of faith and life in the Middle East as well as in the US. The book touches on the meaning of being a free human being who has the sole right to make personal decisions. It tackles the subjects of freedom in totalitarian regimes like those of the Middle East, in comparison to the democratic system of the Unites States. It speaks about the reality of morality in the Western context and its counterpart in the Muslim world.
This book shares the effectiveness and power of the Christian faith in the life of a believer in the midst of the difficulties of both oppression and liberty. It shows that faith in Jesus is just as relevant as the circumstances of everyday life. It confirms the validity and the practicality of the gospel as if it was written today to the modern world. It is a story of the gratitude, hope, and peace that we need today more than ever.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158962639
Publisher:	Christian Faith Publishing, Inc
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
Sales rank:	1,277,664
File size:	347 KB

About the Author

Mouhannad Moses was born in 1976 in Basra, Iraq. Three years after his birth, Saddam Hussein seized power and became the president of the Republic of Iraq. In 1980, Iraq went to war with their Shiite neighbor country Iran. In 1990, two years after the war with Iran was over, Iraq invaded their Sunni neighbor country Kuwait. In 1991, the Allied Forces by the leadership of the Unites States of America launched an encounter attack against Iraq, through which Kuwait was liberated and the Iraq Army was defeated. Meanwhile, the Security Council of the United Nations had issued economic sanctions that lasted until the deposition of Saddam Hussein and the invasion of Iraq by the United States.
Through this time of political, religious, and economic upheavals, Mouhannad grew up with skeptical and pessimistic intellectual outlook about life. Having seen the hypocrisy and the contradiction of religion, the corruption of governmental institutions and politics, and the injustices of the national and the international courthouses and their laws, faith in transcendental deity or humanity had become impossible.
Thus being thrown from the hand of religion to the hand of atheism, and from the hand of atheism to the hand of pessimism, Mouhannd suddenly found himself landing in the hand of Jesus. In 2005, he went to Lebanon to enroll in the Alliance Institute of Theology to become a pastor. In 2008, he pastored an Iraq church in Damascus, Syria. In 2009, he came with his family to the US and now he is working as a co-pastor at Grace Point, a Christian and Missionary Alliance church, in Buffalo, New York.