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[quote=Anonymous]Father Tom was kidnapped during this:

Sixteen people died that day, including four nuns: Sisters Anselm, Marguerite, Regina, and Judith. (Members of the Missionaries of Charity are typically identified only by their first names.) Salesian Rev. Tom Uzhunnalil, a priest living in the compound, was kidnapped by the ISIS gunmen and is still missing.

A fifth nun, Sister Sally, the superior of the local community, lived to tell the story.

Crux has obtained a copy of a memorandum describing a conversation between Sister Sally and another member of the order, Sister Rio, about the events that day. Although Crux could not independently confirm its authenticity, the document contains details that suggest an eyewitness account.

“Sister Sally is fully surrendered,” Sister Rio is quoted as saying, describing the nun’s acceptance of God’s will for her fate. “The police are trying to get her out because [ISIS] will just keep after her until they kill her.”

“Whatever God wants,” Sister Sally is quoted saying about the threat. Speaking about the people who were murdered, Sister Sally “said to pray that their blood will be the seeds for peace in the Middle East and to stop the ISIS.”

The first to be killed were a guard and a driver for the Missionaries of Charity sisters. Soon after, five young Ethiopian men who tried to warn the sisters were tied to trees by their wrists and shot in the head before having their skulls smashed.

The sisters split up, trying to reach two nursing homes contained within the compound, in order to protect the patients. Four women, including a cook who had been working with the religious for 15 years, began screaming “Don’t kill the sisters, don’t kill the sisters!”

They, too, were slain.

Sister Sally ran to the convent to try to warn Uzhunnalil. He had heard the screaming, and instead of trying to escape, he ran to the chapel to consume all the consecrated hosts it contained so that the assailants would not be able to defile them.

Every religious article in the chapel was destroyed, including its tabernacle, altar, and crucifix, as well as an image of the Virgin Mary.

A neighbor saw the terrorists force the priest into a car; he hasn’t been seen since.

The 3,000-strong Catholic population in Muslim-majority Yemen represents less than 0.01 percent of the national total of 24 million. According to the 2015 Catholic Almanac, there are currently four priests serving four parishes in Yemen, located on the southern coast of the Arab peninsula.

One of those priests is Uzhunnalil, originally from India. He’d been living with the religious sisters since last September, when his local church was burned down.

http://www.cruxnow.com/faith/2016/03/17/nun-hopes-the-blood-of-her-murdered-sisters-will-feed-peace/

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-03-04/gunmen-kill-16-including-4-nuns-in-yemen-retirement-home
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