News - Baptist Missionary From Iowa Shot In Brazil
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Baptist Missionary From Iowa Shot In Brazil
POSTED: 4:41 pm CDT July 10, 2005
UPDATED: 4:57 pm CDT July 10, 2005
DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa Baptist missionary is in critical condition Sunday at a Des Moines hospital after he was shot several times a week ago outside a Brazil church he founded.
John Leonard, of Creston, is unconscious at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he was flown Saturday.
The 45-year-old Leonard is an ordained Baptist minister who has established several churches in Brazil during his two decades of missionary work.
The Rev. Pat Nemmers of Saylorville Baptist Church said Leonard is clinging to life and may be paralyzed from the neck down. The Saylorville church financially supported Leonard's missionary work.
Leonard slipped into unconsciousness after six days in a Brazilian hospital. He had been working in a remote area in the coastal state of Alagoas.
Nemmers said a bullet is still lodged in Leonard's arm and bullet fragments remain in his neck.
He said Leonard was approached by two men on July 3 after completing a sermon. They asked to speak with him. Outside the church, they shot Leonard at close range, striking him in the face, arm and back.
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Baptist Missionary From Iowa Shot In Brazil
POSTED: 4:41 pm CDT July 10, 2005
UPDATED: 4:57 pm CDT July 10, 2005
DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa Baptist missionary is in critical condition Sunday at a Des Moines hospital after he was shot several times a week ago outside a Brazil church he founded.
John Leonard, of Creston, is unconscious at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he was flown Saturday.
The 45-year-old Leonard is an ordained Baptist minister who has established several churches in Brazil during his two decades of missionary work.
The Rev. Pat Nemmers of Saylorville Baptist Church said Leonard is clinging to life and may be paralyzed from the neck down. The Saylorville church financially supported Leonard's missionary work.
Leonard slipped into unconsciousness after six days in a Brazilian hospital. He had been working in a remote area in the coastal state of Alagoas.
Nemmers said a bullet is still lodged in Leonard's arm and bullet fragments remain in his neck.
He said Leonard was approached by two men on July 3 after completing a sermon. They asked to speak with him. Outside the church, they shot Leonard at close range, striking him in the face, arm and back.
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
posted by Douglas Porter @ 7/10/2005 02:57:00 PM
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