And yet martyrdom is the highest ideal we could ever offer to God in the Christian faith.
While everyone else here is feeling sad about these missionaries, I am thinking they are certainly bound for Glory as the rest of us can only hope for.
Likewise for those whom God has asked to be Orthodox in the lands of muslim killers and torturers. They are no doubt honored to have been provided with such an opportunity to serve and rely on God. Of such opportunities are saints made. This life is transient, the next is the more important one.