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Christian aid workers slain in Afghanistan
July 25, 2014
Two Finnish women who have worked for a Christian aid organization in Afghanistan since 1997 were gunned down in Herat, the nation’s 3rd-largest city.
“These women have given their lives-- now literally-- to help and serve the neediest of the needy in the hardest of places,” a friend told World Watch Monitor. “Helping the most marginalized Afghans-- women-- through mental health and psychiatry projects, they had forsaken an easy, comfortable life in Finland.”
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Further information:
- Afghanistan shooting: Finnish aid workers killed in Herat (BBC)
- Two Finnish Christian aid workers killed in Afghanistan (World Watch Monitor)
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