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The Daily Article

Three sisters who fought the Nazis: How compassion changes those who change the world

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, Daily News, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Three sisters who fought the Nazis and commuters who helped an out-of-work vendor show us the impulse for compassion God has given each of us. Today's podcast discusses this reality and calls us to partner with God for the good of our culture and our souls.

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians.

0:07.8

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit

0:12.5

thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.6

Before getting to the Daily article today, please know that the announced impeachment inquiry

0:24.6

into President Trump is an evolving story I plan to make the focus of tomorrow's daily article.

0:30.6

Now, here's today's Daily Article.

0:33.6

There is something in us that wants to help people who need help.

0:36.6

Time tells the remarkable and sometimes gruesome story of three sisters

0:41.2

who fought the Nazis as part of the Dutch resistance in World War II.

0:46.0

One explains why she became involved in the conflict.

0:49.4

While I was biking, I saw Germans picking up innocent people from the streets,

0:56.3

putting them against a wall and shooting them.

1:02.4

I was forced to watch, which aroused such an enormous anger in me, such a disgust.

1:12.2

You can have any political conviction, or be totally against war, but at that moment you are just a human being confronted with something very cruel.

1:18.0

Shooting innocent people is murder. If you experience something like this, you'll find it justified to act against it.

1:22.5

Hassan Nezadezavandi has spent the last five years distributing Express, a publication of the Washington Post. Mr. Nezadezavandi has spent the last five years distributing Express, a publication of the Washington Post.

1:29.9

Mr. Nezadezavandi immigrated from Iran in 1978 to go to college, but unrest in his homeland

1:36.4

cut off his funds. He has been working odd jobs for many years to support himself. He stood at the

1:42.6

same spot in Washington, D.C., for four hours

1:45.6

every morning, passing out the newspaper to the commuters who passed by. He did his job in the snow,

1:51.7

rain, or heat. When the Post announced last Wednesday that the last copy of Express would

1:57.4

be distributed the next day, many of the commuters realized they would no longer see Hassan.

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