Posted on 03/04/2016 7:14:08 PM PST by Petrosius
Four gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Missionaries of Charity nuns of Mother Teresa, the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia told the Vatican’s Fides news agency. The Vicariate said two of the slain nuns were from Rwanda and one each from India and Kenya. One nun who survived and was rescued by locals said that she hid inside a fridge in a store room.
The gunmen, who first told the guard they were on a visit to their mother, stormed into the home with rifles and opened fire, one local official said. As well as the nuns, the dead included two Yemeni women working at the facility, eight elderly residents and a guard. The motive of the gunmen was not immediately known. They fled after the attack, the official said. The bodies of those killed have been transferred to a clinic supported by medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres, medical sources said.
There are around 80 residents living at the home run by Missionaries of Charity. The nuns also came under attack in Yemen in 1998 when gunmen killed three of them in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida.
Yemen's embattled government is based in Aden but has struggled to impose its authority there since its forces, backed by Gulf Arab troops, expelled Iran-allied Houthi fighters who still control the country's capital, Sanaa. Once a cosmopolitan city home to thriving Hindu and Christian communities, Aden has gone from one of the world's busiest ports as a key hub of the British empire to a largely lawless backwater. Aden's small Christian population left long ago. Unknown assailants have previously vandalised a Christian cemetery, torched a church and last year blew up an abandoned Catholic church.
Muzzies again?
It’s a muzzie thing, you wouldn’t understand./major sarc.
“The motive of the gunmen was not immediately known.” Yeah, right.
Islam strikes again. Prayers for all those slain and prayers for the conversion of the “gunmen.”.
Fifth Seal.
I’d say damn the scum who did this, but that is a foregoing conclusion and also not my call to make.
Really, they attacked an old age home? Why that is so very brave, so manly.
Gunmen = Muslims
Is Christianity even legal in Yemen?
islam strikes once again. Only retards and rapists follow islam.
New saints in Heaven. I hope they ask Our Lord to convert the Mohammedans.
An Obama will just play another round of golf!
A great percentage of males in the mideast are naturally violent and stupid. That makes them perfect candidates for Islam. Islam allows them to sate their need to murder and rape. Rape not absolutely necessary but adds to the “fun” for the savages.
Heartbreaking news. This world is going through some evil dark times, but hey, let’s all discuss the size of Trump’s hands. We truly are witnessing the brainwashing of the masses. Our media is completely worthless.
May our Lord take them into his kingdom.
I agree.
Awaiting the harsh condemnation from Pope Francis.
Yep. You have to read between the lines to figure out what happened.
Gunmen = Muslims
Youths = Feral Blacks
Activists = Feral Blacks (who want more free Sh!t)
“Is Christianity even legal in Yemen?”
Before Mo there were many Christians there (as well as in the rest of the Arabian peninsula).
Yes it is legal although with various restrictions. Here’s an excerpt describing the local Vicariate (Catholic).
(Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Arabiae Meridionalis) is a territorial jurisdiction of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church based in Abu Dhabi, covering the following countries of the Arabian Peninsula: United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen. The Apostolic Vicar in charge since 2005 is the Swiss born Bishop Paul Hinder OFM Cap.
It was established in 1888 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Aden and entrusted to the Capuchin Franciscans of Lyons, France. A year later the name was changed to Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia (the whole Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia) and remained the same until 31 May 2011 when by decree of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in Rome the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia (United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, with residence of the Bishop in Abu Dhabi, UAE) and the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia (Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, with residence of the Bishop in Awali, Bahrain) were established.
For almost a hundred years the Apostolic Vicar of Arabia lived in Aden, Yemen. On 1st January 1974 St. Joseph’s Church in Abu Dhabi became the See of the bishop.
I’ll be attending Mass at St Joseph’s this evening. Will be praying for the repose of these souls.
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