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n Iraq many miracles daughter, laying dead on the
happen, reports Canon bed.
IAndrew White, better known
as ‘The Vicar of Baghdad’. He He grabbed her and just said:
recently shared this story: ‘Eashoa, Eashoa, Eashoa.’
Then she sat up! And she said:
One day a man named Ahmed ‘Daddy, I’m hungry, can you
turned up in the clinic. He said: give me some food?’
“Doctor, can you make my
daughter better?” So he came and told me what
had happened. I said: ‘Don’t
The doctor said: “No, I can no worry, something like this has
longer treat her, she’s now in happened before.’ I then read
hospital. Go to the priest.” Mark 5:41-43 to him.
So he asked me: “Can you heal “Taking the child by the hand,
my daughter?” I said: “I can’t, He [Jesus] said to her, “Talitha
but God can.” That moment I kum!” (which translated
heard God say to me: “You means, “Little girl, I say to you,
can’t, but I will make her get up!”).
better.” Immediately the girl got up and
began to walk, for she was
I prayed with him and told him: twelve years old. And imme-
‘God is going the make your diately they were completely
daughter better. Go to the astounded.
hospital now and just keep And He gave them strict orders
saying ‘Jesus’ in Aramaic: that no one should know about
Eashoa, Eashoa, Eashoa.’ this, and He said that some-
thing should be given her to
He got there and the doctor eat.”
came out and said: ‘Ahmed, I’m
so sorry. Your daughter has - Source: Andrew White, Joel
just died.’ He cried and cried News International, 947,
and cried. He went to his 29/04/2015.