previous gatherings of the so called the lateral thinkers movement have ended in violence. they're watching d.w. need. more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction boom. christianity firmly established itself. both religious and secular leaders want to display their power . to trace the games. and create the tallest biggest and most beautiful structures. stonemasons builders architects compete with each other. this is how a massive church is for creative. contest of the feel good. story. on t w. pastor

gertrude martin's gives blessings in farsi the language of iran his church is open to among others refugees slated for deportation this may be their last chance for the ira from iran and of afghanistan as christians they were persecuted in their own countries and even face the death penalty they are to be allowed to stay in germany says pastor martens for years he's acted in defiance of the german courts of i'm not worried about that in the least then they should just send me to prison . one berlin's church of the holy trinity was built

a century or so ago the basement was meant to be used as a fellowship hall but now it's become home to refugees most of them from iran and afghanistan protestant pastor dr godfried martins has granted them church sanctuary the immigration authority and the police don't get past the door. now we're entering an area that at the present not even the church members are allowed into so we can maintain the security. reason but i said also here in this area there is a quarantine room for newcomers. when they come to us they have to go into quarantine for 14 days before they can live in the community or with the others. that someone is in there now no no no he's done out of and another ones and only one person's just been released and now the other one goes in. you know. the big

fellowship area only a little spaces left. on this side we have the sleeping quarters where our church refugees can spend the night. and conan. this is a room with a kitchenette a little fellowship room and it's a kind of a living room for the refugees from increasing as. the room is generally housed 10 men are so they are all slated for deportation and only allowed to remain in germany until their data arrives most of them profess a christian faith and actively practice it. that means they pronounced islam and act punishable by death in iran the right comes from tehran knows he cannot return to iran he's trying to adjust to life in germany and learn the language we feel forced to leave. the east the. east want to.

believe. you know iran i wasn't allowed to profess christianity officially learn more about christianity in that your thora g.'s would have arrested or killed me. the call and then. he's just the only opportunity i had to be active in it was through the internet and my own research and i was a member of a home congregation and i plan to mount the and i would hear you so much when it all came out i received threats and my family came under pressure they intimidated me. more sure that you should what was. in the church has gained a reputation for his delicious soup. when he fled iran he passed to bulgaria and

romania and eventually arrived in germany. could. he knocked on the church door and pastor martens let him in going i was a really. big if i told a hungry person jesus loves you and then sent them away without giving them something to eat so if i saw someone whose life was in danger and didn't take action. it would if i did that i'd completely destroy my own credibility. even in germany christian converts often live dangerously in the refugee shelters where there are radical muslims who see converts as a past hate infidels and threaten the course this is what happened to alice a lot of afghanistan. i'm out of those i had a roommate at the refugee shelter who is

a muslim. who started when he saw me wearing a cross. it was disrespectful to me and threatened me that only make i reported it to the shelters managers and they warned him that the threats didn't stop. even trying to throw me out the window on the 5th floor. over the past 15 years well over a 1000 refugees have found sanctuary with pastor martens now they make up the majority of his congregation most of the german members are getting on in years many of them help out the refugees with learning german for example often converts the pastor to baptize them 1st they have to attend a preparation course regularly among the topics of the christian doctrine and differences to islam at this session they discuss the church position on divorce

the neophytes complete the course with an exam. well this is kinds a this is no a guaranteed pass. i've had some courses where over half the students fail and only when these people have convinced me beyond any doubt that they seriously desire to become christians and that they understand why they want to become christians and i baptize them if somebody were just to say i want to become a christian because i think islam is silly that's not reason enough for me to baptize them toll from their rock and elissa law both attend the preparation course at the church regularly they hope to be ready for their baptism by easter night the principal church service before the resurrection of christ. yes afraid of food and i'm already looking forward to the exam because i can get baptized afterwards i can be born again into a new eternal life or so i'm really looking forward to it. now.

i don't think up to them examine would be hard for me so it would bother even know my thoughts are completely focused on the baptism that i'll be born again and i'll receive the peace i have always sought after in my life but even if they do convince the pastor that they quite seriously desire to become christian that means little to earth already is the decision on asylum applications is made on a case by case basis and is often anything but transparent. it's him up you don't again and again i'm just stunned at this arrogance the decision makers and judges display when they say things like yes the pastor overlooked it for years but within just 2 or 3 hours we figured out that something wasn't right here to me. the assumption is that refugees are just pretending to be christians to get asylum. or the german immigration authorities may see it that way. but to me that's what's

most important is that in my heart i'm a christian. i'm not alone with my christian faith has yes i've already experienced that back in iran. and it was. but too often that fails to impress the authorities and the asylum seekers often hear cynical arguments as to why they are to be sent back to their home countries that's a good idea let's just last week i read a transcript of a hearing where at the end of the decision maker said these are you say that you believe in eternal life then it shouldn't be any problem for you to go back to iran and actually been sentenced to death because then you get eternal life and that you should aspire to it and wish to be. zoe read stuff like that week after week. that was a direct quote the cynicism and unfairness only served to spur pastor martens on in

his efforts as a rule germany tolerates the churches granting sanctuary to asylum seekers to save them from deportation currently that totals about 500 people in germany even so time and again legal action has been taken against clergy who offer sanctuary in their churches. i'm not worried about that in the least then they should just send me to prison a good thing compared to what's in store for our people in iran and afghanistan even a prison in germany is still a luxury. pastor martin visits id in an iranian who was paralyzed in an accident. i didn't can't come to the church so the pastor administers communion to him at home. 35 year old i.d.n.

had already come in contact with the christian faith in iran but that drew the attention of the authorities to him the muslim clergy have openly stated that they see the biggest threat to iran's internal security in underground christian communities meanwhile more and more iranians are taking ideas view of islam the state religion. the wars in iraq because by that the relationship will be quite good and we can't leave to be to give a warning because you should marry. it's not good if you are muslim and change your religion it's very very of. a service at the church of the holy trinity the refugees have come up from below to join in but because of the pandemic only

a very few worshippers who registered in advance are allowed to take part. in the op 58 year old pastor martens preaches and farsi it's become routine for him he's taught it to himself over the years he has no family of his own he's devoted his life entirely to working for his congregation. the next step for elisa law and paradis baptism. our oil and. home of my future lies in the hands of jesus christ all of them of those who if you have a good plan for my life again will i trust on that. man 2000 a year i've had problems to deal with since my early childhood but again but when i look back now i know that jesus christ has always helped me. quarter.

by way of the baptism i want to be with him always on the phone for the on the way for us tonight as a coalition. so often in the meantime both have passed their baptism exam if the pandemic allows they'll be baptized into the christian face on easter night but whether that will convince the authorities to grant them asylum is another matter. off. of a shared quandary to start a new life migrants in sicily to basic if the life they live in jail was worth the risk they took what i went through. is not really wanted you know when to give you 250 survival you cannot survive on that coming here to come here you are already in

from your book you are only infringing do proper got a 77 percent getting to the next d.w. . behind the facade of congo's ultra wealthy. rich and famous in one of the world's poorest countries who was responsible for this in the democratic republic of the congo and most importantly how are they doing it. longer millionaires of kenya. in 45 minutes on d w. in the art of climate change. africa's mix of. what's in store. things used for the future. costs for the major cities to the multimedia insight. culture.

well guys it's always a pleasure to be with you welcome to another edition of the 77 percent this is the platform for africa's you i'm your host eddie michael jr. so they sure will focus on migration to leave your country or not to leave that's the question let's check out what's coming up. we'll talk to my gran's on the tally on the island of sicily to see how life is treating them with respect to gun entrepreneurs whose business revolves around making coffee. and we'll find out why a young lawyer left his fable you went job to make running shoes in kenya now let's start off with migration well many reasons why people migrate i for example came from god awful my studies and i'm still here in germany for work that's my story

but we wanted to hear yours so we hit the streets of johannesburg. i mean i'm only 26 so long as i remember this is my world although i want to be and from what i make so i moderated yeah but these fish many hours when. they do not move to what's on the you know. 18 i moved to south africa. and i definitely migrate just because i have no idea what's like what's outside of this will i was kind me thinking of going to the middle east and spend my cheek you by i don't know i don't know i think it'll be a good opportunity for me always to give it to america. i'm not sure i'd probably migrate again because. it's got that you need a lot of energy to. liberalize yourself and i said the country. the

people. that the little boy. i'll refer to that one piece they will. as we've all heard leaving home it's not always easy and unfortunately some people be high price for it now office reports takes us to the spanish canary islands gran canaria lies just 150 kilometers off the african coast there are almost daily reports of people risking their lives to reach europe and many find themselves stuck on the island without jobs. this small harbor in southern gran canaria is full of memories for amadou and his friend for 7 days they travelled in a wooden boat over 1300 kilometers from senegal across the atlantic spanish to rescue boats pick them and 80 other passengers up and brought them to gran canaria

. nation they wanted to show us their boat but one of the rescuers says it has already been scrapped on. we arrived on the 27th of october nothing has happened since i have no work i have nothing to do what i can do is eat and sleep. here we can do anything for our family. like sending them money for food . was a fisherman in senegal he worked hard and even had his own business but he earned very little from selling fish and he couldn't compete with the growing competition from international fishing fleets. on gran canaria i'm a dual lives in a tourist hotel a temporary shelter for him and thousands of other migrants kicking a football is all the migrants continue to pass their time on. isn't like africa.

you know everything with people in europe they want to cease to commence it's just like. but it's not only the migrants that are caught in a crisis young spaniards like javier dominguez and his colleagues have been jobless for months normally when they work as waiters in tourist restaurants but because of the covert 1910 demick holiday makers have stayed away for weeks the young men have organized protests and believe the numerous migrants make things worse. some accuse the protesters of racism tensions on the island are high. they have lot of a problem we want to be clear we are concerned about the mismanagement of the illegal immigrants and the action of our governmental some of us and we are not racists and we've lived here for years with people from different countries and cultures little by said with. the increasing tensions between migrants and

islanders wary abu bakar dreaming he came here 12 years ago from mali and now he sees spain as his home grammy works as a social worker and uses his free time to help newly arrived migrants including amadou. is a simple ickiness i always tell them it's not as easy as you think when you arrive you understand nothing you need to learn the language you need to get a right to stay status it all takes years but when i say this to someone in africa they respond you also made it and you know different from ours. but it is that i found this in music. and i do takes one suggestion very seriously he wants to learn spanish and uses his phone to practice spanish garza's have unfortunately been put on hold due to the pandemic but amadou has learned to be patient.

one cannot expect friend a great job immediately you must take baby steps nothing ever happens once you move step by step. he and his friend still dream of reaching the european mainland and then travelling on to france or germany but their chances look slim as spain is clamping down on migration and sending more and more people back home. so what happens when the so-called european dream doesn't materialize is it worth the risk taking such a dangerous journey for the unknown on the other side. so many questions on my mind but hopefully some of these questions come to us we move over to the italian island of sicily my colleague christine milne who are on our team met with young africans at their journey to europe and are now trying to make a living. in.

the city 7 percent is in italy this country is home to many young people who left africa they crossed the scorching sun they braved the unpredictable minutes rainy and all in pursuit of a better life in europe today we're asking if the life they're living here was worth the risk they took to get a lot you're going to start out with you right now what does it take to make it into your tickets here we're loading docks a lot of therefore it takes a lot of it takes great bravery to make it. through the military and but these are the 1st steps it depends also on what one piece running from what one wants to see in in in europe right chris i'm going to come to you right now and we'll talk a little bit about coming here what you faced what you saw what you experienced. what i came to italy i came not just. alone. like.

us and most of them now in in the various cornfield africa because it was in d.c. for them it was the to do also with luck you know you know like most people live through the sahara desert they also did they went through this the military and were doing on that lucky most people have gone through the sea and most most of them and down there they've been around these drowned so i was really really really like lucky to be alive i was right in italy elijah i'm going to come back to you because i'm picking up that the bright what the reality is is different from from the dream. that we had to be you know we see in africa is portrayed on. you know by do t.v. by the social media chase whatever right mama rica is suffering because. what are the sources that people are believing the colonial stories right what they

have brought us what we are speaking now we should be saying you are speaking with the uproar does not really have to decide it is a overlooked activity today and see right just a cemetery we are where most of all the air doesn't exist as what they do here is to go on to get peace joy in front of to feel adi and that's really does information i read and i want to come see ishmael because you tell us what life is like do you drive a ferrari because that's what people think they mean prospective in their life in iraq is they see as their life the equality in the hail in hell says because in as i'm put in iraq able to be on trade and you are not if you are not what are you going to do you go to farm to where the dog may be only. up to 5 o'clock in the evening in these heats and they are going to give you 25 without food yukon's if i have that you cannot survive on that in italy here i leave it

there because i want to come back to you chris most of last like immigrants we have purchased from home if you call at our parents call from any color like. these can you do the skin you did that did or they forgot about like you have these like. that you are in a new place you know ishmael so. you've made it very clear that you're not living the dream and you help me understand why that is the case. and most of us i want beer and sail the opera pity to let us travel great because of what's seen how broad and take it into your. fierce came in salad bar cool ok if you want to get a better if. it's intended to 5 debates place for you to entice you to and which is not true l.h.a. you are a lawyer and you specialize in migration it's really is has a new laws that make it more difficult for people who come through the

mediterranean to be able to stay here legally talk to us about that when news asked for international protection until 2002 dozen 18 you were able to ask for 3 kind of protections the 1st 2 kind of protection where the european once and the 3rd kind was an italian protection that was given to man and people that were not persecuted from in their county and they were not coming from some countries where there is the war civil war right now is going to be more difficult because if they're not running away from a persecution or from a dental scoundrelly down the you know humanitarian protection is not easy to get at protection ok chris you know the journey that you took to get here. crossing the water the desert everything living in the camps. look at your life today right do you reckon it was all worth with it what i have to say what i

went through. is not really wanted you know to come to displace to risk your life for the force place it's not really worth if you look at body it's ok so you know it's not whether it's relevant to come back to you because for somebody in africa was thinking about doing what you did what would you say to them the amount of money you are going to spend from west africa to get to europe you can use that kind money to start from destruction and i bet you at the end of c.s. months you will see you all solved in. so was it worth it for you coming here everything you went through for the life. living here today wasn't with it's not their life i'm livin in today it's not the kind of life i need election when i come back so you know because in this discussion now what are your final thoughts i want to speak to all politicians and i call them say. you know because they are not looking at the interest the needs the vulnerability that constrain people to my

grid because to the gumbo to senegal to african political leaders it is convenient even if we die in the streets even if we die in the us we can send remittances so i'm telling africans who are there that i am guilty for being here if you come here you are only in from your walk you are running from changing africa so if i am speaking and if you can hear me today i am saying i should get bach and then we should work on what is happening because the future is in africa the real question is is the future in africa for africa is we all slaves we are discriminated we are sticking. why is africa enslaved do we on board we will never be the future you still there the question is who is this beautiful is it for african when we all run from the from from the from the things that we should try to make up there so you've heard from them and now we want to hear from you this is the story off of

shattered dreams they left africa in pursuit of a better life and they're telling us today they have not found it instead they're saying that the life they've long been dreaming for is back in africa on the motherland it's a gauge on social media this is the 77 percent in italy. and i say. pretty revealing. thank you christine on the street debate. now if you guys want to watch the full debate you can catch it on you tube channel africa and don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments section let's take a musical pause from. he's always sending strong messages across through music this is a brand new song produce a screw sleeve leave a d.-w. called combat corruption.

so let's just say we'll be up to the man in the us doing the tom let me look let me near you the man tom you cut it for us me please let me. play with but. that's not. the trap just come exclusively. because. you know. we have to dump the trunk. and be to fight corruption by raising the living standards up to the service of our less than 60 manage $50.00 a month yet i understand that no one will buy dental for service over again if we can fight corruption by checking these politicians we have my experience with it so

why shouldn't this interview be a good fight corruption by changing the situation we face in the informed the opposition i think it should be good fight corruption if we come together with any day because if it ever speaking pick it up in any way this may be because we've never been in the fish take you we suffer any open cover the costs of a spring explosion if you believe the muslims in the us dream up because so many of the players we may be putting become other people us weekly. but. thanks guys for that great message now so far we've had people sharing their migration stories with us to remind out of the 1000000 reasons why people one place to the. but let's now running to our next story in kenya where we meet a young woman who's created kenya's fast running shoes she gave up

a high paying job in new york it's gone in a new challenge back home just about. manny's not to lay out assemble bad anybody close enough as. a co-founder and chief executive officer of and sportswear. the you and i was created with a mission to bring them benefits of running back to kenya. i was actually born maybe my dad was in the air force i got my father's rational development from that i'm school of economics and the one thing that is really blew me away was just how people use our africa you know like every case study to africa if you're talking about dictatorship africa talking about tagore africa so coming out of that i felt i needed to change something like days so much reduced you so

much and gave so much beautiful things happening in africa that were not for the chinese you selected in development i believe and they thought if i ever did something it would be something that definitely interesting development and at the same time use it for its. time to make kenya other potential with all the famous athletes come from kenya actually we can do much more than just a few of us being there because of our want to praise is always to be used in marketing how can their country benefit as a whole. and that's when i got the job with a united nations and then i moved to new york i was like so full of like joy and those athletes the evening of may here i am i'm going to change it was like i mean this think when you see and make where i was like visions i mean. that's the kind of just get there and you stay there until you retire and it wouldn't make a date with diana and all. you have angie make

a goof assuming you don't get a golden handcuffs because it's just much more to life. that was at an event in south africa i think obama went to that event where he just basically said if you want to change africa you have to come to the ground you can just move from a distance at that point back in the film place you're talking to me so i basically left the united nations and decided to hand over everything and to just basically take a chance i'm full of my dreams. we had just been just up what does but equally there are a lot of people who are laying you're making a mistake in kind of making taking this for granted some of the challenges of moving back and if maybe you start you went you've seen efficiency it had to go back you know i mean had to go back and this is when you do new and that way can't you just do it right there are definitely a lot of concerns in terms of white coming back kenya from the sticks that the economy is in the dime ed there's like there's just

a little bit of that but i only see. if we spend a majority meeting that i have to do a what is drugs do on mondays we do for another and i think if you do what you need great story looks like i should grab my purse shoes break some records well as an entrepreneur now value a symbol clearly created image for herself well that brings us to another group of young entrepreneurs who are trying to carve out of their own business coffee is uganda is number one and then exports crop i don't think recently the country's youth have been fired lined from the industry luckily some young people are now tapping into that industry helping you to wake up and smell the coffee. coffee is going to go. to the country at least a $1000000.00 every day through exports but until recently the industry sidelined young people mostly because they grow the crops. have access to family

land in eastern uganda. with my idea to secure their slice of the cake. i'm going to take you through the. experience you're most welcome. to be for. coffee and not sell the coffee rather they sell the experience of making it you get. from the tree to the. process. it all starts in the fields right cherries are picked and then sorted. we are now going to pile of these for you have you both being my shield which for most of this thread called. separating the coffee bean from the red cherry allows easy drying especially for

specialized copies like espresso. but drying takes a couple of days. when the beans are ready when women roast the coffee. according to the subject for dishing roasting is a female a fat. then the beans of pounded into coffee pot. and finally a delicious cup of coffee is made. in his community everybody is proud of the product. cookie has a look as a lot more than 20 use and it's been a great advantage to come up with this idea they use a lot. of the standards of living through this process so it's a big advantage to the community. who needs another young entrepreneur and uganda's

capital kampala. general cut about he is a consultant for risk of working with the youth. gangs to keep copy processing jobs in uganda upscaling young people he said of exporting the world needs the president of the domestic with quality so it is beginning it's beginning to appreciate. by being very good standard by standardizing their process and. over the coffee but edition where we have by young people involved in this change we are now trying to see in because it's now a huge percentage kind of. tapping into the millions of jobs in the coffee industry might solve some of uganda's youth unemployment problems. should be all hands on deck in helping address youth unemployment on the continent . and that's how you wrap up the show so what are your thoughts on the stories

we've covered so let us know social media platforms or writers on e-mail to 77 i d w dot com we'll leave you now with a very special song it's vijayan musician chris. you saw him in our street debate he's calling for the respect of migrants and refugees you know he told me on the song title of. meaning not fish that's accurate because we're human beings. it's by far now. the luck i. cannot even. jane to pin sucking but i've been to my no bob amy cmon. benny simone. better look out of the lot yank the event out is that i.

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