(WSJ) The Missionary Killed by Islamist Terror

The 2016 political season is churning with anti-immigrant vitriol and wariness of the outside world. But one group of American Christians””missionaries””continues reaching out instead of walling themselves off. They honor Christ’s message in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25: “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

The selfless work of missionaries was poignantly illustrated by the terrorist murder on Jan. 15 of 45-year-old Michael Riddering, an orphanage director in West Africa.

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