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An Islamic extremist was sentenced to death Sept. 14 for assassinating a politician and coordinating the shootings of three Southern Baptist hospital workers, according to the Associated Press. Ali al-Jarallah was sentenced to death for planning the attack on a hospital in Jibla, Yemen, that resulted in the deaths of three Southern Baptist medical workers. His sentence includes the assassination of Yemeni Socialist Party deputy Secretary-General Jarallah Omar, who was shot days prior to the attack on the hospital. Al-Jarallah is the second person this year to be sentenced to death for the hospital attack. In July, Abed Abdul Razak...

Willing to Die in Muslim Lands, for Jesus In the past, medical missionaries usually have been left alone to do their work. Their benefit to the community they served was too great to go without it. DALLAS, Texas — When missionaries hear God's call, many of them know the price they pay may be great. For those who minister in Muslim nations, that price may be their very lives. Some missionaries have been violently killed, because they are Christians, or because they are Americans. And that has been a growing trend in the months since the terrorist attacks of 9/11....

For survivor of terror attack, faith never wavers • Don Caswell will return to Levelland on June 22 to speak at First Baptist Church. • He will talk about his brush with death in Yemen at the hands of an Islamic terrorist and his plans to return to that country. Even as he stared down the barrel of the gun of an Islamic fanatic intent on taking his life, Don Caswell wasn't afraid. "I didn't have a lot of fear," he said recently from his home in the East Texas town of Eustace, where he's recovering from two gunshot wounds...

<p>MILWAUKEE -- The siblings of an American missionary slain Dec. 30 in Yemen don't want the accused killer executed, though the prosecutor is seeking the death penalty.</p> <p>"We're not going to lie awake at night waiting for vengeance and waiting for his death," Jerome Gariety Jr. said of himself and his two surviving sisters in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.</p>