Faith&Friends
FEATURE
Out of the Past
COUPLE TURN THE CORNER ON THEIR REFUGEE LIVES. by Darryl Whitecross and Colleen Flanagan
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ohn and Corina Ardelean know what it is like to depend on others for help. Both are from refugee families of the 1989 Romanian Revolution. Struggle to Eat Corina’s parents were forced to leave her and two of her sisters behind 22 • JULY/AUGUST 2021 I faithandfriends.ca
with their grandparents when they fled to Canada, after having spent time in a refugee camp in the thenneighbouring country of Yugoslavia, with the aim of making a better life for the family. Corina’s father was in the Romanian Army and was found to be a Christian, which was illegal.
