A pastor who helps victims of substance abuse, rescues minors from prostitution and provides a home for battered women survived an assassination attempt in Argentina.
Pastor Marcelo Nieva was driving in Rio Tercero when a gunman fired rounds from a 9mm handgun into the pastor’s car. Neither Pastor Nieva nor his passenger was hit with any of the bullets that penetrated the car.
A forensic exam of the car found that a bullet struck a vertical beam in the car frame and was deflected millimeters, sending the round into the car’s interior. Without the deflection, the bullet would have struck the pastor’s neck.
The Pastor credits the hand of God for keeping them safe during the attack. He also said that he is not going to slow down doing the work of Jesus to placate the drug gangs that have been objecting to his helping those in need.
“We are struggling and working to uncover the truth of the facts,” he said to Chrsitian News. “We firmly believe that truth overcomes lies and the light will always vanquish darkness.”
Police have been slow to investigate and local residents have said they believe the pastor’s actions are exposing corruption among local officials when they don’t take steps to stop the drug gangs from harassing the pastor and church members.
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban has sent a letter to a schoolgirl that the Taliban tried to assassinate in 2012.
Adnan Rasheed doesn’t apologize but says he wishes the attack “had never happened” and that she was not attacked for advocating for girls’ education but because she an ran “an anti-Taliban smear campaign.” Continue reading →
The Taliban assassinated a young American diplomat and five others this weekend.
Anne Smedinghoff, 25, was killed along with three soldiers, two civilians and an Afghan doctor. The group was traveling to deliver books to a school in the southern part of the country. Continue reading →
One day after Al-Qaeda’s #2 leader in Yemen was killed in a drone strike, the terrorist group struck back in an attempted assassination of Yemen’s defense minister.
The attack near government offices in Sanaa killed 11 including 7 of Major General Muhammad Nasir Ahmad’s personal bodyguards. A car bomb detonated as the minister’s motorcade passed the booby-trapped vehicle. Continue reading →
A former Taliban minister who had been a go-between in potential peace talks was assassinated as he headed toward a meeting with the government about reconciliation.
Mullah Arsaia Rahmani had been living in Kabul under protection from the Afghan Intelligence Service. He died when a gunman approached his car and opened fire. The assassin escaped according to another member of the Council.
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