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We remember their sacrifice.
On March 4, 2016, gunmen burst into a Missionaries of Charity home for the elderly in Aden, Yemen, and murdered 16 people — including four religious sisters who had already been given permission to leave amidst the violence, but chose instead to “live or die with our poor.”
Ten years later, we remember: Sr. Anselm, Sr. Judith, Sr. Marguerite, Sr. Reginette, their Yemeni coworkers, the young Ethiopian Christians who tried to warn them, Sr. Sally (the only sister who survived), and Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, the priest kidnapped that day and freed 18 months later.
Pope Francis called them “martyrs of charity” because they died exactly where Jesus told us to be: with the forgotten, the sick, and the poor.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.