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Taliban Killings Could Cool US Missionary Impulse
By not in system - AOL NewsThe Taliban's cold-blooded murder of 10 medical aid workers -- six of them Americans -- working in Afghanistan for a Christian group, the International Assistance Mission, has raised new concerns about the safety and viability of Western missionary work in a time of growing resentment among many Muslims toward anything connected to the U.S. or Europe. ...
Taliban's Killing of Christian Aid Workers Could Chill U.S. Missionary Impulse
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe cold-blooded murder of 10 medical aid workers -- six of them Americans -- working in Afghanistan for a Christian group, the International Assistance Mission, has raised new concerns about the safety and viability of Western missionary work in a time of growing resentment among many Muslims toward anything connected to the U.S. or Europe. American Christian missionaries and even aid workers who, like those representing International Assistance Mission (IAM), do not proselytize, can represent Western imperialism or "crusader" Christianity to militants like the Taliban, which has claimed ...
American Died Living His Dream in Uganda
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(July 12) -- Nate Henn was realizing a long-held dream of living in Uganda as an aid worker, writing on his Facebook page recently that he was living the best days of his life in the African country, where he helped educate former child soldiers. Henn's work was cut short Sunday, when he was among the scores killed in the Uganda bombings while watching the World Cup final. He was 25. The three-pronged terrorist attack at a rugby club, an Ethiopian restaurant and a bar popular with tourists injured dozens, including six Methodist missionaries from a Pennsylvania church. Henn, a Wilmington, ...
Americans Held in Haiti Plead for U.S. Government Help
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA group of 10 Americans jailed in Haiti for attempting to take 33 children out of the country illegally is pleading with the U.S. government to assist them, the New York Times reports. The Americans were charged on Jan. 26 with kidnapping and criminal conspiracy, and now say the U.S. is not doing enough to help them. "I have faith in God," said Corinna Lankford, one of the detainees, who say they believed they had permission to rescue orphans after last month's earthquake. "But maybe the U.S. government could help a little more, too. No one is giving us any kind of information about what is ...
Idaho Baptists Charged With Child Abduction
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 4) --Haitian officials have charged 10 Baptist missionaries from the U.S. with child abduction and criminal conspiracy for their role in attempting to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti following that country's devastating earthquake. The Americans, most of whom are affiliated with Idaho's Central Valley Baptist Church, were stopped at Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic on Jan. 29, with the children in their custody, as AOL News reported. After a hearing today in Port-au-Prince, a judge found there was sufficient evidence to charge the Americans. According to Laura Silsby, ...
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