ICC Note:

The  young nun was killed on Novermber 29th  in her office in Bakavu, located in Eastern DRC.  The east has suffered various attacks by the Islamic terrorist organization, ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) for the last two decades.   A priest was abducted and later released in Kivu earlier in  November.

12/5/2016 (Catholic News Agency) – Sister Marie Claire Agano, a religious of the Franciscan Congregation of Christ the King, was killed the afternoon of Nov. 29 in her office of the vocational training center at the Mater Dei parish of Bakavu.

The pontifical institute’s “World and Mission” magazine wrote that Sister Marie Claire was victim of “an assault with a gun, probably by bandits who wanted to rob her.”

World and Mission noted that the nun joins a list of religious in Africa who have given their lives for the Gospel, such as the elderly religious Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici and Bernardetta Boggian. All three were murdered in 2014 in Burundi, after having worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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