Toys and Gospel Literature Bound for Sudan - 5 Dec 2003
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...More than 100,000 shoe boxes filled with toys and gospel literature are headed for children in war-torn Sudan. Transport planes filled with the boxes collected by Operation Christmas Child leave this weekend for Sudan. Rev. Franklin Graham will fly to that country to help hand out the shoe boxes to children. Graham, who has been highly critical of the religion of Islam since 9-11, says he was invited to Sudan -- a Muslim nation -- by the African nation's foreign minister to meet that nation's president. After clarifying that it was indeed him they wanted to invite, Franklin was told the Sudan government desired him to bring his Christmas program there because they wanted him to "part of the peace process." Operation Christmas Child is planning to deliver seven million shoe boxes individually packed by American donors to 95 countries around the globe. |