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Nuns Freed in Somalia


There is some good news out of Somalia today!  Two Italian Nuns who had been kidnapped in Kenya and held in captivity in Somalia have been released.  The BBC reports that the ladies were snatched from the border town of El Wak.

To read the whole story from the BBC, click here.

Forgiveness

Other nuns in Somalia have not been so blessed to be released.

A little over two years ago, Sister Leonella was killed in Somalia.  She was shot four times in the back while she was in a hospital for women and children in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.  She had worked in Kenya and Somalia for 38 years.

Just before she died, Sister Leonella said in her native Italian, "I forgive.  I forgive."

Wow.  What amazing forgiveness.  A lesson for us all...

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