Annalena Tonelli, called “the Mother Teresa of Somalia,” was shot by unknown gunmen on Oct 5 2003. She worked largely on her own, in radical poverty, “without a name, without the security of a religious congregation,” serving the poor and sick in the name of Jesus.

“Those who count for nothing in the eyes of the world but so much in the eyes of God have need of us and we must be with them and for them. It doesn’t matter if our action is like a drop of water in the ocean. Jesus did not speak about results...only about loving each other...”

""I always feel the presence of God," she said one night as I quizzed her on the subject over dinner." washingtonpost.com/archive/l…