El Salvador worker is target of violence. (shooting of Alejandro Hernandez)

The Christian Century | May 8, 1996 | Copyright

Though details of the case are murky, the February 2 shooting of a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission worker in El Salvador seems to have been more calculated than random. Alejandro Hernandez--who works in a Lutheran community ministry that reaches about 700 families in the Chalatenango region in central El Salvador--was shot twice in the face while sitting in the driver's seat of a car full of teenagers.

Deaf in one ear as a result of the assault, Hernandez is recuperating from reconstructive surgery on his jaw. He remembers only that he was approached by two men who ...

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