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Our Localization Efforts
Hopeful Moments in Homs
The city was the
rs are the ones you can’t see.
In Homs, Syria, the deepest sca
4, leaving it a
bombardment from 2011 to 201
site of a devastating siege and
rred landscape
dispatched back into this sca
wasteland of rubble. Tony was
ained as a Jesuit
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people who
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priest. He quickly began servin
ma and loss.
bore the unseen scars of trau
ms,” Tony said.
are two of my greatest proble
“Poverty and the loss of hope
cant that speaks
looking for something signifi
“Young people, especially, are
ir pain.”
to their potential as well as the
nd that our
be with them in their pain, fou
Tony, desperately wanting to
hearts more open,”
go deeper. “The videos make
videos opened up a space to
ing themselves
ipture, they assist people in see
Tony said. “In the light of Scr
.”
er than as forgotten or broken
as called, seen, and loved rath
are hopeful
devastation, BibleProject videos
In a city that has seen years of
ult outside.
a welcome contrast to the tum
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like these
exquisitely designed resources
“Short, well-considered, and
but
smartphones are widely used
are invaluable in an area where
infrastructure is brittle.”
the people
deep, God is at work providing
Though the scars of war run
vision along the way.
of Syria with moments of pro
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