A child has passed away after battling a fatal case of the flu, according to his father’s social media account.
International influencer and speaker Paul Kim announced on Instagram that his five year old son, Micah, died on Dec. 31, 2025.
Kim speaks about the Catholic Christian faith across the United States and in 16 countries and has 375,000 followers.
His ordeal began on Dec. 21 when he rushed the little one to the hospital in an ambulance.
On Dec. 22, Kim posted, “His scans are showing that his brain activity is not present. He is receiving the anointing of the sick at 3pm hour when Divine Mercy redeemed us all. We humbly ask you to join us in praying for a miracle."
The next day on Dec. 23, the boy had surgery due to bleeding inside his chest and three priests had come to pray with the parents, anoint their son and offer him the confirmation sacrament.
The boy had been ill for eleven days. By Dec. 30, Kim posted a photo of his son on life support in the hospital.
“There are quite literally hundreds of thousands of people who are praying for Micah and we are forever indebted to you all," he wrote.
After Micah died, the grieving father captioned his farewell video with Bible scripture Job 1:21, “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Kim and his wife have five children and Micah was their sixth.
“Micah is already in Heaven at work, seriously, so many testimonies, so many ways in which God is using the light in my five-year-old to truly save souls and change the world," Kim added.