The Real Horror

Apr 2, 2023

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What is the real horror in life? When you think you’re good, but don’t even know what you’re missing.

Timestamps, Links, and Sources

0:00- Intro

1:18- What is the real horror?

3:30- There is victory in the Atonement

4:40- The connection between confession & supernatural revelation

10:34- Jesus’s experience as a refugee

12:09- The Afghan’s predicament in Pakistan

January 9, 2023 Pakistan receives billions in foreign aid for flood relief
Donors have pledged more than $8 billion to Pakistan for recovery efforts following devastating floods last year. The United Nations held a conference to raise the money, with Germany having pledged $88 million.

https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-receives-billions-in-foreign-aid-for-flood-relief/a-64323882

15:22- The failure of the US to keep their promise to the Afghans – stalling immigration applications

DEC. 1, 2022 An Afghan soldier fleeing the Taliban spent months reaching the U.S. to request asylum. He was arrested at the Texas border.
Abdul Wasi Safi was trying to reach his brother, who immigrated legally to Houston after helping the U.S. military. Legal experts say Wasi may have to serve a criminal sentence before he can pursue asylum.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/30/afghan-soldier-asylum-texas-jail-taliban-border/

AUGUST 31, 2021 Remarks by President Biden on the End of the War in Afghanistan
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/31/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/

Thursday, March 16, 2023 Agency Failures Make Obtaining Humanitarian Parole Almost Impossible for Afghans
USCIS records show how the agency’s response to the high volume of humanitarian parole applications contributed to the massive delays faced by Afghans
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/foia/uscis-failures-afghans-parole

GROUND ZERO The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/20/taliban-afghanistan-zero-unit-migrants/

20:49- SIGAR’s investigatioon & secret Doha documents

Four Takeaways from the New Afghanistan Collapse Analysis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/four-take-aways-new-afghanistan-collapse-analysis/

25:10- You can’t fix the problem if you don’t know wht it is

27:50- Update on Kabul Hope

33:19- Update on scam attempt

37:17- Movement towards immigration

46:36- How to help Afghan Christians

53:47- Our Easter plans

58:10- Comments

Carla M. Sallee Alvarez

Carla Alvarez is the founder of Raised to Walk and a founding board member of An Unexpected Journal, a Communications Director at Legacy Marketing Services where she uses her BS in Marketing to create communication strategies for business, and an unlikely case manager and Bible Study teacher for the Afghan Christians of Kabul Hope Latest Series: Hacked: the Saga How an oily politician and a band of intellectual property and identity thieves conspired to erase a third-grade Sunday school teacher, Read more of her work on Google Scholar and Substack or contact her to write for you.