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| Una mariposa ~ a butterfly |
Thank you, Xana McCauley, my pastor friend in South Africa, for alerting me to the story of Dede Mirabal (1925-2014), which appears today in the New York Times as one of the "Overlooked No More"--people who made important contributions but whose deaths went unmarked in the NYT by obituaries at the time.
May Dede continue to rest in peace with her sisters, las mariposas, their code name for themselves in their work against Rafael Trujillo, murderous dictator of the Dominican Republic.
Good timing--a memorial to Dede Mirabal's resistance to one horrific president on the same day the US president is impeached a second time for leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Xana is a founding pastor of Hands of Compassion, a nonprofit Christian community based in Johannesburg, SA, which addresses the needs of poverty, injustice, and recovery.
James 2:17 "So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless."
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