Meeting Jesus at Heathrow

Bible Society  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Jul 2017
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Abdul met Jesus in a dream. Now he forgets he’s in a detention centre when he reads the Bible

Abdul met Jesus in a dream while awaiting deportation at Heathrow. ‘I came to the UK because I had a problem in Afghanistan,’ says Abdul Ahmad, 32. That’s a bit of an understatement, as it turns out.

As we go to press, Abdul is being held at Heathrow’s Immigration Removal Centre awaiting deportation. And it is here that he has discovered the Bible.

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