The Killing of Five American Nuns in Liberia
During the height of Operation Octopus, five American Catholic nuns — Sisters Mary Joel Kolmer, Kathleen McGuire, Agnes Mueller, Shirley Kolmer, and Barbara Ann Muttra — were murdered by armed fighters in Gardnersville, a suburb of Monrovia. They had refused to abandon their mission of caring for local residents and children amid chaos and gunfire. […]