(ANSA) - Vatican City, May 22 - Pope Francis at his weekly
general audience Wednesday remembered a nun killed and
decapitated in the Central African Republic on Monday.
The headless body of Spanish nun Ines Nieves Sancho, 77, was
found in the village of Nola near Berberati.
"I'd like to remember with you," the pope told his audience,
"Sister Ines Nieves Sancho, 77, an educator of poor girls for
decades, barbarically killed in central Africa right in the
place where she taught the girls to sew".
He described her as "one more woman who gave her life for
Jesus in the service of the poor.
"Let us pray together," the pope told French-speaking
faithful.
The reasons for the nun's murder are unknown and no one has
so far claimed responsibility for it.
Pope remembers nun killed in Central African Republic
One more woman who gave life in service of poor