Martyrs

InstantReplay extends its sympathy to the Wycliffe community after the murder of a couple in Guyana yesterday.

[T]he Hicks had lived in Guyana for almost a decade, working for the Dallas-based Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Florida... Kenneth Glover, a spokesman for the Guyana Bible College, said the Hicks were translating the Bible into the Wapishana language spoken by thousands of Indians in the border region, which is a cattle and peanut-farming region about 230 miles southwest of Georgetown, the capital.

The murder does not seem religiously motivated; police suspect that it was committed by thieves frustrated to find no money in the Hicks' home. To me, it's still a martyrdom, and we hope and pray that someone will take courage and step in to complete their work.