May the death of Sister Maria be a seed of peace

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May the death of Sister Maria be a seed of peace

10:38 CAT | 08 Sep 2022

FILE - Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) [File photo: Vatican Media]

The number one of the episcopal conference remembers the missionary killed in Mozambique

“Let’s pray for Sister Maria who for sixty years served Mozambique, which has become her home. May her sacrifice be a seed of peace and reconciliation in a land that, after years of stability, is again plagued by violence, caused by Islamist groups that for some years have sowed terror and death in vast areas of the north of the country. My thoughts, on behalf of the Churches in Italy, go to the family members and the Comboni Sisters, to Fr Lorenzo and Fr Loris and to all the missionaries who remain in so many countries to bear witness to love and hope ”. This was stated by Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), after having learned the news of the attack, in the night, on the Mozambican Catholic mission during which a Comboni nun, Maria De Coppi, died.

“I express deep condolences to the Comboni Missionary Sisters and to the Diocese of Vittorio Veneto for the death of Sister Maria De Coppi, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Chipene, Mozambique. After Sister Luisa Dell’Orto, Little Sister of the Gospel of Charles de Foucauld, who died on June 25 in Haiti, we cry for another sister who, with simplicity, dedication and in silence, offered her life for the love of the Gospel “, added the president of the CEI.

Zuppi, also recalling the two ‘fidei donum’ priests of the Diocese of Concordia-Pordenone, Don Lorenzo Barro and Don Loris Vignandel, both saved after the fire of the male college structure and the looting of most of the mission accomplishments, concluded: “let’s remember them in our prayers and surround them with a lot of solidarity because they walk with us and help us to reach the peripheries from which we will be able to understand who we are and choose how to be disciples of Jesus”.

“Piangiamo per un’altra sorella che con semplicità, dedizione e nel silenzio ha offerto la vita per amore del Vangelo”. Il cordoglio del card. Matteo Zuppi, arcivescovo di Bologna e presidente della #CEI, per la morte di suor Maria De Coppi #Mozambico pic.twitter.com/hbdaPVa2Rt

— @CEI (@UCSCEI) September 7, 2022