A Christian woman in Colombia has revealed how she not only forgave those who killed her loved ones, but on separate occasions sheltered them and nursed them back to health. The woman, Pastora Mira Garcia, who in September 2017 was chosen to speak before Pope Francis during his visit to Columbia, revealed in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need last week that she has lost much of her family in
the country’s guerrilla war, where close to 900,000 people have died. “On April 4, 1960, my father, Francisco Mira, was killed by political rivals. I was 4-years-old when his nine children were forced to see his murder. Pushing my mother aside, they shot him and then beheaded him in front of us,” Garcia recalled. “In 1999, my mother suffered a heart attack and died when militants of one of the country’s warring factions knocked down the neighbors’ front door.” READ MORE