{"id":4674,"date":"2006-09-18T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/09\/18\/i-forgive-i-forgive\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:50:12","slug":"i-forgive-i-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/09\/i-forgive-i-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"I forgive, I forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">NAIROBI, Kenya Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in volatile regions of Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<br \/>\nI forgive, I forgive,&quot; she whispered in her native Italian just before she died, the Rev. Maloba Wesonga told The Associated Press at the nun&#8217;s memorial mass in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/09\/18\/africa\/AF_GEN_Somalia_Nun_Killed.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" width=\"76\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"><\/a>   [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.slappy.org\/?p=596\">Ipsissima Verba<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">GetReligion also reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0609180184sep18,1,6700735.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\">she had a bodyguard who was also slain<\/a>. The story doesn&#8217;t mention how long she has had a bodyguard, but considering that she was serving in Mogadishu it was probably not a new assignment. You just normally don&#8217;t associate nuns with bodyguards, though maybe kevlar habits might be a good idea during this time. Put on the whole body armour of God or something like that. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-fg-nun18sep18,1,6386040.story?coll=la-news-a_section\">another story <\/a>I found that her bodyguard&#8217;s name was Mohammed Mahmoud who was 50, so please send some prayers his way and for his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in volatile regions of Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}