We briefly mentioned Eva Edl when reporting on the Biden-Harris Administration's weaponization of the FACE act against Christians protesting abortions because her name was included in the list of those convicted.
From Catholic Vote:
Eva Edl is an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor and pro-life advocate who is now facing up to 10 years in prison after the Biden-Harris Administration's Department of Justice charged her with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Edl and six other pro-lifers were convicted for 'conspiracy against rights' after protesting outside of an abortion facility in Detroit, Michigan.
Their protest took place back in 2020. Sentencing is currently pending, but if she gets ten years, Eva will likely spend the remainder of her life in a prison cell.
But who knew what a heroine of the faith this woman really was?
She is a survivor of a communist death camp in Yugoslavia after the Stalinists pushed out the Nazis, and her family was flagged for appearing too German. Luckily, she escaped, and eventually made it to America.
Most importantly, she is a believer in Jesus Christ.
Check out some of these facts revealed in a recent interview she gave:
On why she protests abortions:
I became aware of abortions and abortion clinics existing in the United States in 1988. I saw a group of people in Atlanta, Georgia, blocking an abortion clinic. I did not know abortions existed beforehand. And so, I simply said, well, this makes sense, people should have done that for me when I was being shipped into a death camp to be exterminated. These babies are just shipped in a different way.
On how she feels about spending her remaining years in prison:
I just simply started to prepare to die and have my children sell my house.
It became just overwhelming because too much happens in a number of years. You accumulate too many little knick-knacks and memorabilia from the grandchildren and all. So finally I had to give up and say, 'Lord. I just leave it all behind. The children just can take a dumpster and throw away what they don't want and give away what they want to.' And so now I'm free.
And as far as dying, I don't want to suffer, definitely don't want to suffer. But I'm not afraid of dying. I dealt with that as a young child before I was even put in the death camp, because that's when I heard about sin.
We learned the Ten Commandments in second grade, and I knew I was a sinner and that I was on my way to hell. But, praise God, I also heard about Jesus who loved me enough to come from heaven and who took on humanity so he could pay for all my sins. And if I give my life to Him, I was told, He will take me to Heaven when I die.
So I lost my fear and I surrendered my life to Him then and I haven't gone back since. He's well worth it. Suffering is really nothing compared to what He did for us.
On where her strength comes from:
I say, 'Here I am, use me as you wish Lord,' and that's all. And then I let go because I cannot judge when the Lord uses me if it's the right way or not. He knows best, right?
Just make yourself available and then He'll enable you to do. Don't try to decide, 'Well, will I do it after I'm enabled?' I have never experienced that. If I hold back until the enabling comes, it never does, because only my human strength remains then.
There's so much more in that interview; I highly recommend reading it in its entirety.
Would that there were more Christians in America willing to lay it all down for Christ like Eva.
You can support Eva's defense here.
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