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In 2017, while working at the World Food Program office in the Azarieh building in downtown Beirut, Iman Hijaze spotted her colleague’s rosary lying on the floor. Alex Imad, a former Shiite Muslim who had converted to Christianity, had accidentally dropped it.
“When I touched it, I felt an electrical shock through my body,” Hijaze recalled.
Instead of returning the rosary to Imad, Hijaze slipped it into her pocket. Later, Imad checked the security camera footage and discovered what happened. When he confronted her, he hugged her gently and drew the sign of the cross on her back.
“I felt another electrical sensation,” Hijaze said when recalling the encounter. “It was the first time I actually felt something religious.”
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“When I touched it, I felt an electrical shock through my body,” Hijaze recalled.
Instead of returning the rosary to Imad, Hijaze slipped it into her pocket. Later, Imad checked the security camera footage and discovered what happened. When he confronted her, he hugged her gently and drew the sign of the cross on her back.
“I felt another electrical sensation,” Hijaze said when recalling the encounter. “It was the first time I actually felt something religious.”
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How a stolen rosary led one young woman to the Catholic Church
Iman Hijaze was raised in a culturally Shiite Muslim household and considered herself an atheist until she picked up a rosary one day and put it in her pocket.
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