The Touching Gift Mike Pence Received From a Young Iraqi Boy Whose Home Was Torched by ISIS

Meg Storm : Dec 18, 2017
Faithwire.com

It was a very special moment for the Vice-President.

(Washington, DC)—[Faithwire.com] [Last] Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence was at the White House to meet with families who have had their homes and livelihoods destroyed by the Islamic State. A 12-year-old Iraqi boy named Noeh caught the attention of the former Indiana governor, after he offered Pence one of his only remaining possessions as a gift. (Photo Credit: Mike Pence/Twitter/via Faithwire.com)

According to Kristin Wright, director of advocacy at Open Doors USA, the charity and global persecution watchdog group who organized the gathering, Noeh shared a "special moment" with Pence, when he offered him his marbles collection.

"There was a very special moment where Noeh was able to give him marbles from his burned out home in the Nineveh Plain," Wright said in a Facebook video after the event. "He was able to give them to Vice President Pence as a gift and the vice president received them and it was just a really special moment."

As the Christian Post reported, Noeh and his family were only recently able to return their home village in the Nineveh Plains, after...

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