The 84-year-old Italian nun was killed in an attack in Chipene, Mozambique, on Tuesday evening when suspected terrorists raided the mission outpost and set fire to the Catholic church, the sisters’ residence, hospital, and their equipment. Two nuns, one Italian and another Spanish, and two priests managed to escape.
A terrorist attack Tuesday night at Mozambique’s Catholic Mission of Chipene, Nampula Province, Diocese of Nacala, killed an Italian religious sister. .
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“Our sincerest gratitude for your message of condolences and fraternal solidarity of yesterday,” said Archbishop Inacio Saure, the President of the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique to Bishop Sipuka, the President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference following the letter of solidarity by the SACBC expressing the deep sorrow about the murder of Sister Maria de Coppi in the Nampula Province, Mozambique.
As the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, visits Mozambique, thousands of people are fleeing attacks in the country’s north as the conflict between armed groups and Mozambique’s government spreads.