Posted on 03/20/2016 12:35:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
Two weeks ago, four Missionaries of Charity in Yemen were among the victims of a brutal terrorist attack on a care home where the nuns were working. In this week's Catholic Herald, Gerard Russell examines the background to the murders.
One of the MCs, Sister Sally, survived, and gave an account of the events to another nun, Sister Rio. Her account was recorded by Sister Adriana, whose note is available here. A full transcript is published below.
SISTER RIO’S WORDS TO SISTER ADRIANA, MC: Friday, midday, March 4, 2016
Sisters had Mass, breakfast as usual. As usual, Father stays back in chapel to say prayers, then to fix things around the compound.
8:00am: Said apostolate prayer and all 5 went to home.
8:30am: ISIS dressed in blue came in, killed guard and driver.
5 young Ethiopian men (Christian) began running to tell the sisters ISIS was here to kill them. They were killed one by one. They tied them to trees, shot them in the head and smashed their heads.
The sisters ran 2 by 2 in different directions, as they have mens and ladies home. 4 working women were screaming, "Don't kill the sisters! Don't kill the sisters!" One was the cook for 15 years. They killed them as well.
They caught Sr. Judith and Sr. Reginette first, tied them up, shot them in the head and smashed their heads. When the sisters ran in different directions, the Superior ran to the convent to try to warn Father Tom.
They caught Sr. Anselm and Sr. Marguerite, tied them, shot them in the head and smashed their heads in the sand.
Meanwhile, the Superior could not get to the convent. It is not clear how many ISIS men were there.
She saw all the sisters and helpers killed. The ISIS.....
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Our tax dollars at work.
To go along with the mail
We didn’t have this either
What tax dollars?
Obola’s Religion of Pieces.
Even if they had committed these atrocities on live TV, our despicable president and his accomplices in the media would fail to see the connection with Islam. There is comfort in knowing that God will exact His vengeance on these evildoers, however, and it will be much worse than ours would be.
How awful those poor women...
Thank you God we have a future president who will wipe out this scourge called ISIS
God called faithful christian men to arms on September 11, 2001. The islamists will either wipe us out, or we them.
These are the same type Pope Francis claims should be welcomed in Europe.
And, the Pope is concerned with climate change.
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