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Italian nun killed by Muslim insurgents in Mozambique

September 14, 2022

On 6th September, a group of Muslim insurgents attacked a mission in Memba district, in Nampula province, Mozambique, and killed three residents, including an Italian-born nun. The combatants arrived from the war-stricken Cabo Delgado province on Saturday, burning villages and killing at least 10 people – catechists among them, according to the local bishop, the

Daesh (ISIS) attack in Mozambique leaves dozens dead

March 31, 2021

Brazilian missionary Fr. Edegard Silva in Pemba told ACN the people were becoming used to these attacks. “They were already expecting it," he said, "because over the past two weeks these evildoers and insurgents had been carrying out a series of attacks in the Nangade region, and almost all the communities close to Palma has already been attacked.”