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Nun killed by terrorists in Mozambique

September 07, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: Sister Maria De Copppi, an 84-year-old Comboni nun, was killed by in a terrorist attack on a mission school in Mozambique.

Sister Maria, who had served in Africa for nearly 60 years, was shot and killed as the attackers—believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State—destroyed a church, clinic, and school in Chipene, in the north of the country.

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