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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gazaly" data-source="post: 7539451" data-attributes="member: 10197"><img src="http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2009/10/14/1225786/544166-rifqa-bary.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Fathima Rifqa Bary, the Muslim teenager from Columbus, Ohio, who  converted to Christianity and ran away to Orlando, is being treated for  uterine cancer.Rifqa, now 17, has already undergone two  operations and will have a third one on Thursday, according to a close  friend and her former Orlando lawyer."The only reason she wants  this to be known is she wants people to pray for her," said John  Stemberger, who represented Rifqa in her 2009 fight to stay in Florida.She  lost that battle and was returned in October to Columbus, where she  lives with a foster family.She has been in and out of the  hospital but remains under the care of the foster family, said  Stemberger, who said he spoke to her last week.Jamal Jivanjee,  an ordained pastor who directs an Orlando-based ministry, also confirmed  that Rifqa has cancer.In an email to her friends and  supporters, he wrote, "Her situation is very serious, and she will need  the help of many people in the weeks and months ahead. . . . As soon as  Rifqa heals from the major surgery that she will undergo this Thursday,  it is expected that she will need to undergo several rounds of  chemotherapy. . . ."Rifqa is in desperate need of an army of  supporters to know about what is occurring regarding her situation, and  to pray for her healing," Jivanjee wrote.Reached by telephone,  Rifqa's father, Mohamed Bary, would not discuss his daughter's health.Neither  would Kort Gatterdam, one of her attorneys in Columbus.Rifqa  rode a bus from Columbus to Orlando in July and moved in with a  husband-wife team of evangelical pastors, Blake and Beverly Lorenz. She  said she ran away, saying her father or members of his mosque would kill  her for converting to Christianity.Investigators in Florida and  Ohio found no proof to support those claims, and an Orange-Osceola  judge ordered her back to Ohio in October, where she and her parents  have continued a court battle over how she should be raised.She  turns 18 on Aug. 10. As an adult, her court battles with her father  should end.Still a problem, though, is her immigration status.  She is in the country illegally, Jivanjee said, and faces the prospect  of possible deportation to her native Sri Lanka.Jivanjee said  Rifqa has finished high school early and has graduated.Amy L.  Edwards can be reached at <a href="mailto:aledwards@orlandosentinel.com">aledwards@orlandosentinel.com</a> or 407-420-5735.  Rene Stutzman can be reached at <a href="mailto:rstutzman@orlandosentinel.com">rstutzman@orlandosentinel.com</a> or  407-650-6394. <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-rifqa-bary-cancer-20100524,0,4371482.story" target="_blank">http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-rifqa-bary-cancer-20100524,0,4371482.story</a></blockquote>

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