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| Somalia: Italian nuns freed by kidnappers |
| 2009-02-20 |
| (AKI) - Two Italian nuns kidnapped in Kenya three months ago and taken to neighbouring Somalia have been freed, the Italian government said on Thursday. Gunmen abducted Maria Teresa Olivero and Caterina Giraudo, who are both in their 60s, in the northern Kenyan district of Mandera in November and took them across the border. The nuns had been working with the poor on hunger and health programmes in Kenya. Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi told reporters on Thursday the two Roman Catholic nuns were now at the Italian embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. "Their morale is high," Berlusconi told reporters. Following the nuns' abduction, Pope Benedict XVI had expressed concern about their fate. The Italian foreign ministry, which first announced their release, did not give further details. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 One of the grand poobahs in Saudia Arabia, I think it was, complained a few years ago that 6 million Muslims a year are converting to Christianity, if I recall correctly. No doubt the number is imaginary, in one direction or the other, but the concern is real. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-20 20:18 |
| #6 Actually, Africa is a losing front for the Muzzies : more people convert to Christianity in Africa than are born and/or convert to Islam. As a matter of fact, several big time Muzzies have been public upset with this fact and called for "action" against it. The main means for this conversion process seems to be the old fashioned good works missions run by (wait for it!) generally elderly nuns in very poor neighborhoods. The various Orders of Sisters are the ground troops in the Church's quiet move on Islam. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2009-02-20 19:49 |
| #5 Christians everywhere are an endangered species, unless they decide to fight back. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-02-20 17:46 |
| #4 Yeah, but with all the muzzies running around the Christians in Africa are an endangered species. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-02-20 16:50 |
| #3 Do you realize that there are a lot of christians, many of them Catholic, in Africa? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-20 15:20 |
| #2 Catholic Church take note, if you keep "Interfering" with Islam they'll keep killing Y"all. Either let the Muzzies Die or keep sending nuns to die. (Bad choice for the Church, I know, Unless they're deliberately getting rid of troublemakers) |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-02-20 12:16 |
| #1 Two Italian nuns kidnapped in Kenya three months ago and taken to neighbouring Somalia have been freed by bad little There, fixed that. [Ed.] |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-02-20 09:45 |