Oskaloosa News Recap For December 21st, 2020
National and World News
The owner of a North Korean fishing fleet was publicly executed for listening to a banned US-funded radio station while at sea.
The captain, only identified by his last name Choi, was gunned down by a firing squad in mid-October for listening to Radio Free Asia over a “long period of time,” according to a law enforcement source in North Korea.
The source added that authorities were tipped off about the prohibited actions by a crewman at Choi’s base in the port city of Chongjin. Choi was publicly shot at the base in front of 100 other captains and managers of the facility’s fish processing plant.
The New York Times published a story Dec. 18 about the eight sisters who died in December from COVID-19. (GSR screenshot)
Four women religious died on the same day, adding to the sum of eight nuns who succumbed in a little more than a week in mid-December in Wisconsin after complications from COVID-19 as the virus spread in the facility that cared for them.
Group settings that care for the elderly, such as Notre Dame of Elm Grove in suburban Milwaukee where the women lived, have caused alarm during the age of COVID-19. Many communities of men and women religious, particularly those that have members in their 80s and 90s and beyond, have opted for limited contact with the public.
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Eight Roman Catholic nuns, who were in their 80s and 90s and had over half a millennium of combined service to the community, died from COVID-19 despite being “extra careful” at a Wisconsin retirement home in a week, according to reports.
The Sisters, who were from Notre Dame of Elm Grove, about eight miles west of Milwaukee, died from complications caused by the coronavirus between Dec. 9 and Dec. 16, according to TMJ4.
“The Sisters, we’re being extra careful in terms of getting their meals in rooms and they can’t congregate together,” Sister Debra Sciano, provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, was quoted as saying. “More testing, being tested twice a week for the virus.”