To be close in order to serve – WORLD REFUGEE DAY
The Vatican’s Migrants and Refugees Section released a video on Thursday, entitled “To be close in order to serve”.
In the video, a man named Tijan reflects on his experience of fleeing war in Sierra Leone.
“Back in 1996, I had to leave my village because of war,” he says. “I was 6-years-old. They arrived in our village, Namasadu – Sierra Leone – at around 4 AM. My sister, my mother, and I were at home, while my father was working on the farm that we owned.”
Tijan says the soldiers took his brother, Omar, and turned him into a child soldier.
His mother, says Tijan, brought him to a nearby Center, to stay with several religious sisters. She then went back home to retrieve Tijan’s sister. “She did not return that day,” he says…
