In 1996, on the night of March 26/27, seven monks from the Trappist monastery of Tibhirine, south of Algiers, were kidnapped by Muslim fundamentalists. Fifty-six days later on May 21 all of them were beheaded. I tell their moving story in my book, Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People, the story of their love for their Muslim neighbours in Algeria. The heroic witness of these martyrs of love has now been made into a film, Of Gods and Men, winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Christian martyrs for the Islamic world
Fr Martin McGee OSB recalls the remarkable bravery of Christian de Chergé and his fellow monks who suffered martyrdom in Algeria
Fr Martin McGee
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