It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Qahera. Meet Egypt’s newest comic superheroine: she wears a hijab, she has special powers, and she really, really doesn’t like to be sexually harassed.

A veiled Muslim superwoman rescues other women from sexual harassment, violence, and misogyny. Her 19-year-old creator says, “She’s basically everything I long to be.”

Missionary Pioneer Elisabeth Elliot Passes Through Gates of Splendor

Memorial services were held yesterday for Christian author Elisabeth Elliot, who wrote Through Gates of Splendor, about her husband Jim's murder by the Auca Indians in Ecuador; she later returned to live and work among them. Elliot also was the author of Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot.