India, March 16 -- The morning of March 4, 2016, began, as it often did, with the Eucharistic celebration at the Missionaries of Charity nursing home in Aden. The Sisters, strengthened by prayer, moved quietly among the nearly eighty elderly and disabled residents, serving breakfast, medicine, and the simple comfort of presence. Their lives were woven into the rhythm of service - small acts of love in a city torn by war.

Then, soon after the Mass, that rhythm was shattered. Armed men stormed the compound, killing sixteen people, among them four Missionaries of Charity Sisters: Sr. Judith from Kenya, Sr. Anselma from India, Sr. Reginette from Rwanda, and Sr. Marguerite from Rwanda. Their chaplain, Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, was abducted, beginni...