“He’s been going to church and people from the church are visiting him,” Lois Pistorius, an aunt of the South African sprint runner, told The Guardian. “He attends the English service and I attend the Afrikaans service.”
She added that the athlete is reading the Bible at home “a lot.” “If you’ve got a purpose in life and you believe in God, it gives you a reason to understand things when they’re not going smoothly because you rely on God who is everlasting and always there. Humans make mistakes. None of us is perfect.”
Pistorius’ uncle, Arnold, told M-Net channel in South Africa earlier that the athlete cries frequently. “He reads Scripture and he prays. He grieves all the time and, it’s such a personal thing, it’s difficult for me to talk about this but he’s going through a very, very tough time.”
