Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- The Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Portugal has reported that a priest and a lay missionary volunteer were killed and other persons were wounded in an attack on Angone Residence in Tete Province in Mozambique on Monday 6 November. At 1am armed bandits broke into the residence killing Brazilian Jesuit Fr Waldyr dos Santos, aged 69, and 30 year old Idalina Neto Gomes Portuguese lay woman of the Portuguese association Laity for Development. Portuguese Father Mario J. de Almeida, aged 37 and Mozambican Brother José Araújo de Andrade, aged 76 were wounded in the attack. The assailants escaped with the community vehicle.
These sort of attacks are commonplace and Catholic missions and religious community houses are often targeted in the province which borders with Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe and is prey to banditry. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 7/11/2006 righe 17 parole 70)
