Prayer Services, Memorials Held for American Aid Worker Killed by ISIS

peter-kassig_NEWS-smThis week a Muslim prayer service was held in Indiana for Peter Abdul-Rahman Kassig, the American aid worker who was beheaded by ISIS militants. The 26-year-old Kassig had converted to Islam prior to his abduction in Syria last year, a conversion his parents said was sincere. He became the fifth Western hostage that ISIS claims to have beheaded since August.

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