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British Aid worker shot for being a Christian


Gayle Williams, a British aid worker in Afghanistan was shot by the Taliban for trying to "preach Christianity"

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

"Pat Williams was told yesterday that her daughter Gayle, 34, had been gunned down by two men on a motorcycle as she walked to work in the capital.

The aid worker, who worked with disabled children, had recently moved from Kandahar in the south of the country because it was too dangerous.

Mrs Williams, who lives in London, said her daughter had always wanted to help others.

"Gayle was serving a people that she loved, and felt God called her to be there for such a time as this," she said. "We know her life was blessed and she was a blessing to those around her.

"No one could have asked for a more humble daughter with a more loving heart. She died doing what she felt the Lord had called her [to do] and she is definitely with him."

Miss Williams, who had dual British and South African nationality, also had a sister, Karen, who was told the bad news in Johannesburg.

The Taliban took responsibility for the shooting and said it was because Miss Williams was trying to "preach Christianity" in a conservative Islamic nation.

The Taliban took responsibility for the shooting and said it was because Miss Williams was trying to "preach Christianity" in a conservative Islamic nation.

The British registered charity she worked for, Serve Afghanistan, rejected this claim.

Chairman Mike Lyth said: "We are Christian - that is what gives us the motivation to go into a dangerous and difficult country to try to help - but she was not involved in proselytisation."

But the death of the aid worker prompted other charities to warn that the situation was becoming increasingly dangerous and that they would review their security arrangements following the murder.

Dominic O'Reilly, UK director of Afghanaid, said they would consider their security but continue to use female staff.

"We employ low-profile security and prefer not to use armed guards, but we do review arrangements on a daily basis," he said.

"We are a much softer target than the military. Unfortunately I don't think this will be the last casualty."

Matt Wilson, deputy programme director at War Child, said if the situation became worse, the charity would consider pulling out of the country.

He said: "We are monitoring the situation, and are reviewing whether they need to be in Kabul.

"If it became much worse, then we would look at pulling back to somewhere like Turkmenistan and continue our work."

But Christian Aid said it had no plans to pull out of Afghanistan.

"We work with local partners where the need is greatest, irrespective of race or religion," said a spokesman.

"This was apparently accepted by Taliban when they constituted the Afghan government and we were able to work inside the country."

The shooting is not the first time a Christian has been targeted in Afghanistan.

Last year, 23 South Korean aid workers from a church group were taken hostage in southern Afghanistan, with two being killed and the rest released.

Last year, 23 South Korean aid workers from a church group were taken hostage in southern Afghanistan, with two being killed and the rest released.

In 2001, eight international aid workers, including two Americans, were imprisoned and charged with preaching Christianity.

They were finally freed by Afghan mujahedeen fighters who attacked the Taliban after the American-led invasion."

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"Open letter asks King of Spain not to sign decree allowing aborted babies to be ground up"


From catholicnewsagency.com

"Father Joan Manuel Serra, a priest of the Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, has asked King Juan Carlos of Spain not to sign a royal decree that would modify mortuary policies and would make it legal to use “baby crushing machines” that would be used on the remains of babies aborted up to the seventh month of pregnancy in abortion clinics.

In an open letter, Father Serra recalled that current policy “obliges abortion ‘clinics’ to consider the remains of an abortion as cadavers, when they are human remains ‘of a sufficient entity,’ that is, at eleven or twelve weeks of pregnancy, and transfer them to a cemetery for their posterior dignified incineration or burial.”

...it was discovered that blenders were being used to cover up illegal late-term abortions

However, after the scandal of the Ginemedex Clinic, where it was discovered that blenders were being used to cover up illegal late-term abortions, the government, “with the supposed support of the main opposition party,” has proposed changing the norms for mortuaries “so that the ‘remains’ of an abortion not be considered ‘human remains of sufficient entity’ until after the 28^th week of gestation,” that is, nearly the seventh month of pregnancy.

“Your majesty, we are reaching levels of inhumanity that are completely inadmissible and that are putting the very foundation of our society at risk,” Father Serra said. “If we do not protect the right to life of all,” even those who are weakest, we are laying “the foundations of a very violent society that will end up destroying itself.”

Father Serra told King Juan Carlos that if the current policy is kept in place, “of properly burying or incinerating the human remains of abortions during the first few weeks, at least we would be giving a humane message to society. This will make many people think again about the value of human life from the moment of conception.”