AMERICA/BRAZIL – Franciscan Sister murdered

Saturday, 25 July 2015

AMERICA/BRAZIL – Franciscan Sister murdered
Guaratinguetá (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Irma Odete Francisca, aged 65, a member of the Institute of the Franciscan Sisters of Siessen, was murdered yesterday 24 July at La Estrella Drug Rehabilitation Centre run by the Fazenda da Esperança, in the town of Guaratinguetá, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. Fides learned from the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, that the sister, attacked by a man attempting a burglary, died of eight knife wounds to her back.
The Institute affirmed that the murdered happened in the morning of 24 July. The intruder broke into the house of the sisters. Sr Irma Odete Francisca, who had worked at the Centre for six years was brutally attacked and murdered. According to the local police, the thief, barefooted and with his face covered, entered the convent by force and ordered the sisters to give him money. La Estrella Centre in Guaratinguetá houses about 350 persons addicted to drugs undergoing rehabilitation treatment. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 25/7/2015)


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