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FEBRUARY
3, 2003
EVANGELISM
Missionary activity in dangerous times
Some attacks on U.S. missionaries abroad:
• Dec.
30, 2002: Dr. Martha Myers, 57, William Koehn, 60, and Kathleen Gariety,
53, were killed and A Donald Caswell, 49, wounded in Yemen when a gunman opened
fire at a Southern Baptist hospital there.
• Nov. 21, 2002: Bonnie Penner, 31, is shot and killed at the Unity
Center in Sidon, southern Lebanon.
• June 7, 2002: Martin Burnham, 42, is killed during a rescue mission
to save him along with other hostages including his wife held by Abu Sayyaf
guerrillas in the Philippines.
• April 20, 2001: Missionary Roni Bowers, 35, and her 6-month-old
daughter, Charity, are killed when the plane they were in is accidentally shot
down by a Peruvian air force jet in the Amazon jungle region. The pilot of the
Peruvian jet thought that it was an airplane transporting contraband drugs.
• Nov. 2, 1992: Joseph Deering, 35, is shot and killed in Thika,
Kenya. Deering, a Jehovah's Witness, was trying to stop an assault on his wife.
• June 11, 1991: The Rev. John Speers, 42, is shot to death by a
suspected drug addict in the Philippines.
• March 27, 1991: Lynda Bethea, 42, is killed in a roadside attack
near Kijabe, Kenya. Her husband, American missionary Ralph Bethea, is beaten
in the same attack.
• Aug. 18, 1990: The body of Baptist missionary Clark Alan Jacobsen,
42, is handed over to the U.S. Embassy. He had been arrested by government troops
in Liberia two days earlier and died in custody.
• May 24, 1989: Todd Ray Wilson and Jeffrey Brent Ball, both 20-year-old
Mormon missionaries from Utah, are cut down by machine-gun fire in La Paz, Bolivia.
The Zarate Willka Armed Liberation Front, a guerrilla group, claimed responsibility.
• November 1986: Elizabeth Senter and her 10-year-old daughter,
Janet, are murdered during an attempted rape at their home in Monrovia, Liberia,
by a student at the Liberia Baptist Seminary.
• May 4, 1985: Thomas Brown, a Baptist Bible Church missionary from
Illinois, is shot and killed by gunmen at his home in Puente Piedra, a suburb
of Lima, Peru.
• Feb. 13, 1982: American Catholic missionary Brother James Alfred
Miller, 37, is murdered in Guatemala.
• Sept. 13, 1981: American Mennonite missionary John David Troyer,
28, is killed in Palama, Guatemala.
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