AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA -Passionist missionary who volunteered in 2003 to test AIDS vaccine, seriously wounded in robbery at his home yesterday

Friday, 2 March 2007

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Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- Passionist Father Kieran Creagh, for years involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS was seriously wounded yesterday at his home in Pretoria in South Africa. “The conditions of Fr. Kieran Creagh are critical but stable. He has a bullet in one of his lungs and in intensive care” Fides was told in a message from the Passionist General House in Rome.
“Fr Creagh was shot three times by robbers who escaped with a mobile phone and a DVD reader” local Church sources in South Africa told Fides. The missionary who hails from northern Ireland was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Pretoria.
Fr. Creagh, born in Belfast, Ulster was elected Irishman of the year in 2004, for his work to fight AIDS in Africa. In 2003 he was the first of 24 people to volunteer to test a new HIV/AIDS vaccine. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 2/3/2007 righe 17 parole 178)