Deo gratias,“a horrible and incredible fact… We are deeply dismayed.” This was the first reaction of Fr. Federico Lombardi, Director of the Vatican Press Office, upon hearing of the death of Bishop Luigi Padovese, who was stabbed on June 3rd in Iskenderun, Turkey.
Apostolic Vicar in Anatolia and president of the Turkish Episcopal Conference, Bishop Padovese seems to have been killed by his driver, who was mentally unstable.

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