Italian ambassador killed in Congo remembered for humanitarian work
Feb 23, 2021 rome bureau chief
Murdered Italian ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, pictured in a Dream center of Sant Egidio in Kinshasa, that works with people living with HIV/AIDS. (Credit: Sant Egido.)
Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio was remembered by his parish priest as a “light that breaks through the fog, illuminates and warms,” after he was killed in an attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ROME – Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio was remembered by his parish priest as a “light that breaks through the fog, illuminates and warms,” after he was killed in an attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.