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Reflections on the aftermath of the Kentucky tornado

It is more than three months since that Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, when the tornado swept through Graves County, Kentucky, leaving behind a path o.

Obituary: Dianna Ortiz, American nun whose torture and rape ordeal made headlines around the world

Died: February 19, 2021. DIANNA Ortiz, who has died of cancer aged 62, was an American Roman Catholic nun who went to Guatemala as a missionary during a decade of US-backed wars in Central America – and went through a shocking ordeal that made headlines around the world. In 1989, she was abducted by a Guatemalan security force, whose members gang-raped and tortured her for 24 hours. Her back was pockmarked with more than 100 cigarette burns and she later had a termination after discovering that the attack had left her pregnant. She was also dangled over a pit of corpses – “some decapitated, all caked with blood,” she recalled – and forced to kill another woman with a macheté.

Dianna Ortiz, American nun tortured in Guatemala, dies at 62

Dianna Ortiz, American nun tortured in Guatemala, dies at 62
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Sr Ortiz: Torture victim to peacemaker

Sr. Ortiz: Torture victim to peacemaker Sr. Ortiz: Torture victim to peacemaker By  Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service February 26, 2021 CLEVELAND  Ursuline Sr. Dianna Ortiz was teaching Indigenous children as a missionary in Guatemala in 1989 when her ministry was torn apart in the midst of the country’s brutal civil war. Guatemalan soldiers abducted her from a garden Nov. 2, detaining her for 30 hours. She reported being gang raped and tortured repeatedly until she escaped. Returning to the United States, Sr. Ortiz became a human rights advocate and peacemaker, starting an organization for torture survivors and becoming a visible presence of nonviolence at vigils and marches in the nation’s capital.

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