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Christian martyrs for a Muslim people / Martin McGee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGee, Martin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Algeria--History--20th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Christian martyrs--Algeria--Biography.
- Christian martyrs.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 191 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Mahwah, New Jersey : Paulist Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the mid 1990s, Algerian society was terrorized by the GIA (The Armed Islamic Group), a fundamentalist organization that had given an ultimatum to all ¿foreigners¿: depart or die. At the time, the beheading of seven Trappist monks at the Tibherine monastery was widely reported in the world press. This book tells their story, but also tells the story of twelve other priests and religious sisters who, like the Monks of Tibherine, had courageously chosen to stay in Algeria despite the threat, and who ultimately paid for their dedication with their lives. Drawing on letters, journals, and his own interviews with people who knew the nineteen religious, the author shows how they operated schools, performed vital medical assistance, sponsored community gardens, taught trades, prepared students for state examinations, and maintained libraries¿mainly in poor neighborhoods and rural villages. By witnessing Christ in their actions without ever attempting to make converts, the nineteen martyrs won the love of the Algerian people, a love that did not cease with their deaths.
- Contents:
- A fire burning inside
- Confronted by death
- Cardinal Duval
- The Gospel life of Brother Henri Vergès
- Six lives given, six lives shared
- Strength in weakness
- A monastery set on a mountainside
- My life was given to God and to this country
- A crucified love
- Witness to the Resurrection
- Encountering the other
- What hope for the future?
- God's gift to us: an interview with Msgr. Teissier.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58768-319-9
- OCLC:
- 961064825
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