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canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=767e06a0-b2be-4537-92f1-06e5409b08b8&k=90709
Italian Catholic priest killed in Turkey, police says
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - An Italian Roman Catholic priest was shot and killed Sunday in the courtyard of his church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon, Turkish police said.
Officers were searching for a teenage boy who witnesses said carried out the attack, according to a police official who declined to be identified because of rules that bar Turkish civil servants from speaking to journalists without prior authorization.
The police official would not say if the attack might have been linked to the printing in European newspapers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which has caused anger in Muslim countries. Earlier Sunday, some 300 Turks protested in Istanbul against the printing of the cartoons.
The priest, identified as Andrea Santaro, 60, was shot in the chest with a single bullet around 3:30 p.m., local time, hours after a Sunday mass, according to private NTV television.
His body was found in the courtyard, just outside the door of the 19th Century Santa Maria Church, which was built under Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid to serve Christians visiting Trabzon.
“We condemn the attack against a man of religion,” Trabzon’s Governor Huseyin Yavuzdemir said. “Police are trying to catch the culprit in line with the witnesses’ descriptions.”
Police cordoned off a street leading to the church.
Another martyr, at the end, the same people suffer.
The killer chanted God is great!!
Catholic Priest Shot to Death in Turkey
By SUZAN FRASER
The Associated Press
Sunday, February 5, 2006; 8:08 PM
ANKARA, Turkey – A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting “God is great” as he escaped, according to police and witnesses.
Officers were searching for the boy aged around 14 or 15, according to a police official who declined to be identified because of rules that bar Turkish civil servants from speaking to journalists without prior authorization.
Turkish police officers carry the body of Italian Roman Catholic priest Andrea Santaro, 60, who was shot in the chest with a single bullet, hours after a Sunday mass in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, Turkey, Sunday Feb. 5, 2006. His body was found in the courtyard, just outside the door of the 19th Century Santa Maria Church, which was built under Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid to serve Christians visiting Trabzon.(AP Photo/Zafer Sel, Anatolia) (Zafer Sel - AP)
The police official would not say if the attack might be linked to the printing in European newspapers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which has caused anger in Muslim countries. Earlier Sunday, hundreds of Turks protested in Istanbul against the cartoons.
“Whether the killing is linked to the caricatures will emerge when the culprit has been caught,” Trabzon’s Gov. Huseyin Yavuzdemir said.
The priest, 60-year-old Andrea Santoro, was shot hours after Mass at Santa Maria Church.
A woman who answered the telephone at the church said the priest was inside when he was attacked, and prosecutor Burhan Cobanoglu said he was shot twice from behind, with bullets ripping through his heart and liver.
Pope Benedict XVI’s envoy in Turkey, Monsignor Antonio Lucibello, said he had spoken by telephone with a witness who said she saw the attacker fleeing and “heard the young man shout ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great).’”
Lucibello declined to speculate on the motive for the killing, but said there were “no elements” to link the attack with the protests over the newspaper cartoons.
Turkey’s government denounced the attack.
“We condemn with hatred the fact that the murder was committed in a house of worship against a man of religion,” said Justice Minister Cemil Cicek.
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October 29, 2005
**Three Christian girls beheaded in Indonesia: **
jihadwatch.org/archives/008755.php
**Three Christian girls beheaded in Indonesia: **
jihadwatch.org/archives/008755.php
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Further details here, with pictures - not for the squeamish:
dog-pundit.blogspot.com/2005/10/horrific-murders-of-christian-school.html
Also:
Pope mourns “barbaric” beheadings in Indonesia
30 Oct 2005 13:06:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
"VATICAN CITY, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict offered his deepest sympathies on Sunday to the families of three Christian girls beheaded in Indonesia as they walked to school near a Muslim town.
The Vatican called Saturday’s killings “barbaric” and said in a statement that the Pope would pray for “the return of peace among the people” of the region, long plagued by sectarian violence.
Six machete-wielding men dressed in black attacked the 16 to 19-year-old students near the Muslim town of Poso on Saturday, leaving the girls’ headless bodies, dressed in brown uniforms, at the site of the killings.
Their heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents.
“The Holy Father entrusted the Bishop of Manado, Mons. Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, to relay to the victims’ families and the diocese his deepest condolences,” the Vatican said in a statement.
Muslim-Christian clashes in the Poso area killed 2,000 people from 1998 through 2001, when a peace deal was agreed.
While the worst violence abated after the deal, there have been sporadic outbreaks since. Bombings in May in the Christian town of Tentena killed 22 people.
About 85 percent of Indonesia’s 220 million people are Muslim"
dog-pundit.blogspot.com/2005/10/horrific-murders-of-christian-school.html
Also:
Pope mourns “barbaric” beheadings in Indonesia
30 Oct 2005 13:06:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
"VATICAN CITY, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict offered his deepest sympathies on Sunday to the families of three Christian girls beheaded in Indonesia as they walked to school near a Muslim town.
The Vatican called Saturday’s killings “barbaric” and said in a statement that the Pope would pray for “the return of peace among the people” of the region, long plagued by sectarian violence.
Six machete-wielding men dressed in black attacked the 16 to 19-year-old students near the Muslim town of Poso on Saturday, leaving the girls’ headless bodies, dressed in brown uniforms, at the site of the killings.
Their heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents.
“The Holy Father entrusted the Bishop of Manado, Mons. Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, to relay to the victims’ families and the diocese his deepest condolences,” the Vatican said in a statement.
Muslim-Christian clashes in the Poso area killed 2,000 people from 1998 through 2001, when a peace deal was agreed.
While the worst violence abated after the deal, there have been sporadic outbreaks since. Bombings in May in the Christian town of Tentena killed 22 people.
About 85 percent of Indonesia’s 220 million people are Muslim"
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