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CEN–CMJ staffer murdered in Israel

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Kendall Harmon

An American staff member with the CMJ UK, the Church’s Ministry among Jewish people, has been murdered while on vacation in Israel.

Kristine Luken (44) an administrator with the CMJ in Nottingham was hiking in a forest southwest of Jerusalem on Dec 18 with fellow CJM staffer, Kay Wilson, a British-born Israeli, when they were approached by two Arab men asking for water. The men attacked the two women, stabbing each repeatedly. Ms. Wilson feigned death and survived the attack, but Ms. Luken bled to death.

“They came to kill,” Ms. Wilson said, telling the Israeli media that one of the attackers ripped a Star of David from around her neck and stabbed her where in the place where the star had lain.

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5 comments on “CEN–CMJ staffer murdered in Israel”

  1. Ad Orientem says:
    January 15, 2011 at 4:34 am

    Appalling. Memory eternal.

  2. Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) says:
    January 15, 2011 at 9:38 am

    Islam, religion of peace. Horse$#|+ !

  3. Sick & Tired of Nuance says:
    January 15, 2011 at 11:42 am

    #2
    DITTO!

  4. TomRightmyer says:
    January 15, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    The Christ Church Jerusalem web site has more on this. So far as I can tell it appears to be another act of violence by angry Arab Palestinians.

  5. Sick & Tired of Nuance says:
    January 15, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    Would that be angry [b] Islamic[/b] Arab Palestinians? Or were they Buddhists? Hindus? Christians? Taoists?