A group of California high school students and their families are among those Americans currently trapped in Afghanistan, and the archbishop of San Francisco is pleading for prayers for their safe return. A number of students from the Cajon Valley School District, near San Diego, were in Afghanistan for a summer experience when the Taliban seized control of the country on Aug. 15. According to the most recent update from the school district on Friday morning, there are, “to the best of our knowledge,” 14 Cajon Valley Union students and eight parents who remain stranded. “I ask for your prayers that these American children will be rescued from grave danger, along with their parents and chaperons. In dark and dangerous times, Christ Jesus gives us the courage to hope,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco wrote in an Aug. 25 message. Cordileone also requested prayers for a San Francisco-area charity that operates in Afghanistan, and which is facing a similar uncertainty about staffers’ escape back to the United States. Roots for Peace, a group based in San Rafael that does agricultural charity work in Afghanistan, saw its compound overrun by the Taliban, he said. More than 350 Afghan employees are stranded and the organization has been given “hours” to get them out of the country, according to the charity’s founder Heidi Kuhn.
Archbishop pleads for charity workers, high school students trapped in Afghanistan – Catholic World Report
Archbishop pleads for charity workers, high school students trapped in Afghanistan – Catholic World Report
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