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Iconic evangelical Christian missionary and prolific author Elisabeth Elliot, who continued to minister to the Auca tribe in Ecuador years after her first husband, Jim, and four other missionary workers were "speared to death" in the 1950s, died Monday after battling dementia for about a decade. She was 88. There have been multiple reports on Elliot's Monday morning death and her status as one of the most influential women of the 20th century. In a brief biography from her website, Elliot sums up the very difficult loss of her husband when their daughter was just 10 months old. "A year...

Traditional Values Coalition Opinion Editorial Tuesday, June 11, 2002 Martin Burnham ‘Died Well’ In Philippine Jungle By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition Washington, DC – The earthly spiritual journey of New Tribes Missionary Martin Burnham is over, and his wife Gracia is safely back in Kansas to be reunited with her three children, relatives, and friends.  It was last May that the Burnham’s visited a tourist resort in the Philippines to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary. It was at this resort that members of the Muslim terrorist group Abu Sayyaf seized them and kept them as hostages...