Three Christian Aid Workers Killed in Yemen, Six Still Missing
June 18, 2009 – 3:47 pmMNN:
Yemen (MNN) ― Nine foreigners from Germany, Britain and South Korea disappeared Friday, June 12, while working at a hospital in northern Yemen in the province of Saada, according to Associated Press.
On Monday, June 15, local shepherds found the mutilated bodies of three women. One was a 34-year-old from South Korea, identified as an aid-worker by South Korea and a teacher by Yemenis officials.
The two others were identified as German nurses. According to Brake Bible School [page translated from German] in Lemgo where the two were third-year students, they had internships in Yemen since the beginning of June. They have only been identified as Anita G. and Rita S…
According to AP, a man identified as Rita’s father told a German newspaper that “relatives had warned her the internship could be dangerous, but she was determined to work with Yemen’s poor.” He then called her an “angel.”…
The nine were ministering with Worldwide Services, which issued this statement: “The news of the killing of the three women will be a shock also to the local people, with whom a warm relationship exists that has been strengthened by the humanitarian efforts of so many years.”
Read the entire MNN report.
See the Yemen Times and Assist News report for fuller details.
As the Assist News report states,
Yemen is one of the strictest Islamic countries. 99 percent of the 21 million inhabitants are Muslims. Small groups of Christians mostly gather in secret.
Please pray for that God would comfort the friends and family of these individuals and that God would graciously use this tragedy to draw souls to Himself.
