{"id":195926,"date":"2025-12-20T22:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=195926"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:48:03","slug":"luka-bajic-9-is-the-youngest-karate-master-in-america-just-a-few-years-ago-doctors-gave-him-a-1-chance-of-surviving-severe-cancer-then-a-miracle-happened-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/luka-bajic-9-is-the-youngest-karate-master-in-america-just-a-few-years-ago-doctors-gave-him-a-1-chance-of-surviving-severe-cancer-then-a-miracle-happened-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"LUKA BAJI\u0106 (9) IS THE YOUNGEST KARATE MASTER IN AMERICA: Just a Few Years Ago Doctors Gave Him a 1% Chance of Surviving Severe Cancer. Then a Miracle Happened\u2026 (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year, nine-year-old Luka Baji\u0107 from Chicago became the youngest karate master and black belt holder in America and in the entire world! And just a few years earlier, doctors gave Luka only a 1% chance of surviving a severe form of cancer he had developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luka\u2019s story is a story of love, faith, willpower, energy, and a miracle that happened at the Monastery of St. Sava in Libertyville. His father, Predrag Baji\u0107, speaks about all of this. He is a former Serbian national team member and the youngest karate practitioner ever to earn a black belt in Serbia, at the age of 11, which shows that the apple never falls far from the tree…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuka is the third child I had in my marriage with my wife, a Filipina. He was born in Chicago in 2015 and spent the first months of his life like all other babies and children. And then, before he was even a year old, shortly after he started walking, one day out of nowhere he fell and collapsed. We took him for a scan and the doctors found a 10-centimeter-long cancer in his abdomen, a neuroblastoma that was wrapped around all his internal organs. The medical board gave him a 1% chance of survival,\u201d Predrag Baji\u0107 says at the beginning of his testimony for Serbian Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DOCTORS GAVE HIM MINIMAL CHANCES TO SURVIVE: Luka Baji\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is difficult, he says, to describe what a parent feels in such moments…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite the shock we experienced, we did not give up; we focused on him, his therapies, and the results. His upper blood pressure was constantly around 200, and he spent his days at Lurie Hospital in intensive care. Father Aca Petrovi\u0107 from the Church of St. Stephen came to baptize him in the hospital, and when he lit the oil lamp, he set off the fire alarms… There were moments that lifted our spirits and gave us hope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the same priest, Father Aca, suggested that they bring Luka to the Monastery of St. Sava in Libertyville, where the arrival of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Hawaii had been announced. Bishop Longin and the clergy decided to organize a special liturgy and prayer for Luka…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlthough I believe in God, until that day I was not a great believer. And then a miracle happened… The bishop served the prayer together with several priests. They placed Luka and me in the middle of the monastery, in front of the altar, and the bishop lifted the icon above us. I cannot describe in words the kind of energy I felt then, how I trembled together with Luka, who was in my arms,\u201d Predrag recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A MIRACLE AT THE MONASTERY OF ST. SAVA: Liturgy and prayer for Luka\u2019s healing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From that day on, everything started to improve…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuka had four surgeries, one of which lasted as long as 13 hours, during which all his organs were removed, but he was on his feet very quickly after that operation. Then he had six cycles of chemotherapy, after which children are usually exhausted, and he went through all of it with a smile, getting up, walking, playing, showing incredible energy for a seriously ill boy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ALWAYS SMILING: Luka Baji\u0107 at Lurie Hospital in Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOn one occasion they missed his vein and hit an artery, and he suffered severe bleeding. That is a situation in which, according to doctors, one out of a thousand survives, and Luka was that one. And so, over time, his recovery happened…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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