Hatune Dogan Livres

“I believe in action”—this motto, and her unshakable trust in God, runs like a red thread through Sister Hatune’s life. In a movingreport, she describes her calling as a nun, her charity work in India, her endeavours to help the poorest and her interactions with people of all kinds that have been victims of religious persecution and oppression, especially in the Middle East. But she also reports on personal experiences such as a life-threatening car accident and her miraculous recovery that reassured her faith in God. Being a refugee herself allows her to empathize with the individual fate during conversations with many of her counterparts. Having experienced Islamic violence firsthand and spoken with and helped many victims, especially women, of Islamic violence, she also warns of the consequences of Islamization for Europe. “As Christians, we have to take a position. And we have to see the human in others as well as in people of different faiths. The basis for my life is the Gospel of Matthew, ‘Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ I want to convince the world to share this belief with me—and to practice it.”

With murder threats—that’s how Hatune Dogan’s refugee story began when she was a child. In this moving account, Sister Hatune reveals to us the threats that her family endured in their homeland in eastern Turkey and what finally prompted them to emigrate eventually to Germany. She reports on the fate of Christian families in the Middle East, their suffering in the face of persecution and repression by Islamist rulers. She takes us on a journey that leads to the abysses of human existence, to the misery of power abuse and oppression. But also how she herself stood by her fellow human beings in such situations. Although she often found herself in seemingly hopeless situations, she always succeeded to help others who were even worse off, giving testimony of her firm faith in God through her deeds. Hatune’s stories of individual fates, but also of the political situation especially in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, which she tries to understand from a historical perspective, should be an invocation to us to once again place humanity and responsibility at the center of our endeavours.

Verfolgt, getreten, erniedrigt - Christen im Irak sind unvorstellbaren Misshandlungen ausgesetzt. Sr. Hatune Dogan, die türkisch-christliche Ordensschwester, die mit unglaublicher Energie humanitäre Projekte vorantreibt, hat die Not derer erkannt, die trotz Verfolgung an ihrem christlichen Glauben festhalten. Furchtlos setzt sie sich für Notleidende weltweit und für die verfolgten Christen im Irak und anderen muslimischen Ländern ein. Ein spannendes, ein bestürzendes Buch.

Schwester Hatune Dogan erlebte als Kind in der Türkei selbst Verfolgung. Als ihr Vater wegen seines christlichen Glaubens eine Todesdrohung erhielt, flohen sie nach Deutschland. Im Nahen Osten steht Schwester Hatune aktuell mit ihrem Hilfswerk vielen Flüchtlingen aus Syrien und dem Irak bei. Sie macht das Schicksal von vergewaltigten und entführten christlichen und jesidischen Mädchen im Westen bekannt. Oft ist sie die Erste, die ihnen zuhört. Die das Leid aushält, von dem Christen und Muslime erzählen. Ein fesselnder, aufrüttelnder Bericht, der auch unbequeme Fragen zum Islam stellt. SPIEGEL online schrieb, wenn man Hatune Dogan mit ihrer Plastiktüte sehe, ahne man nicht, dass sie „eine humanitäre Großmacht ist“.