Sunday, November 30, 2014

NEWS: NEW: South African pastor killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing

A church in Pretoria is reeling after their part-time pastor, Werner Groenewald, and his two teenage children were killed in a suicide bombing by the Taliban in Afghanistan on Saturday.

“We are in shock,” said Willem Badenhorst, pastor for the Moreleta Park Dutch Reformed Church in Pretoria East.  “It is a very, very difficult time for us and the congregation.”

Groenwald, 46, was based in the Afghan capital Kabul for several years, according to Badenhorst. He lived in the country with his wife and two children, a 17-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter who were both killed in the attack, which lasted for several hours.

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