On July 11 (Sunday) a Seventh-day Adventist mother of three (the eldest only 11) was travelling to a relative’s wedding in Mosul. At some point an American convoy began to pass her vehicle. Just as it did, something in front of the convoy exploded. Immediately the soldiers began firing in all directions and our sister was one of the ones hit by the flying bullets. One of her children was also injured. Today they buried her in Mosul.

Homer Trecartin, Secretary-Treasurer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East says, “Please join us in praying for this family, our members in Iraq and that peace will come quickly. Most of all, pray that Jesus will come soon; that is the only real answer to the problems we face in this world.” [Editor: Homer Trecartin for ANR/APD]