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| 2 American missionaries killed in Uganda | |
| 2004-03-21 | |
| A missionary couple from Wisconsin and a Ugandan student were killed Thursday night by gunmen at an evangelical mission college in northwestern Uganda, college officials said yesterday. Warren and Donna Pett, both 49, former dairy farmers from Mukwonago, Wis., were killed when men in military fatigues and armed with AK-47 rifles attacked the Esther Evangelistical School of Technology, about 420 miles from Kampala. "Buildings were burnt and other property destroyed," said William Stough, a senior official at the college, run by the African Inland Mission and the Ugandan aid group Here Is Life. "They taught agriculture and other technical subjects at the school," Stough said, adding they had been in Yumbe for close to a year. "They were totally and entirely dedicated to their Lord," said their son Saul in Mukwonago. "This is where he put them. We know they're home. That's the most consolation we have right now." Ugandan army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said it was unlikely the Lord's Resistance Army, which slaughtered more than 200 civilians living in a refugee camp Feb. 21, was involved in the attack. "The information we have is that this was about competition for land, that the evangelical mission wanted to build a church on land that the villagers wanted for other purposes, but this is not yet confirmed," he said.
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 I used to think missionaries should mind their own business. In many of these Muslim/African countries, people who convert to Christianity can be killed as infidels and their family shunned. All religions were basically the same, I thought. They teach the lessons of how to cope with the ups and downs of life and about afterlife. Belief in one is as good as another. But now I'm starting to understand the value in the work of a missionary. Christian values produce free democratic countries like Europe and the USA. Faith, hope, chairty, forgiveness, sacrifice. Muslim countries never have advanced beyond the time of Christ. May God bless their souls! |
| Posted by: B 2004-3-21 8:15:48 AM |
| #2 Boris seems to have conquered that jock-itch problem he was having yesterday and has returned to his main battle: trying to convince himself he's not a paranoid schizophrenic. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-21 7:52:53 AM |
| #1 Anti-Defamation League is fighting anti-Goyism world-wide. http://AntiDefamationLeague.com |
| Posted by: Gentile Warrior 2004-3-21 7:30:21 AM |