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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Perhaps just hours or less before her murder in northern Mozambique as militants swept into the area, Comboni Sister Maria De Coppi left a voice message with her niece, urging her to pray for the people on the run. Hello, Gabriella, good evening. I just wanted to tell you the situation here is agonizing, its not good. It is very tense, was the voice message Comboni Sister Gabriella Bottani received from her aunt at 8 p.m. Sept. 6. The audio was posted online Sept. 7 by

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Perhaps just hours or less before her murder in northern Mozambique...

Sister Maria De Coppi died in Mozambique when a missionary compound was attacked and local Catholic church set on fire

Agenzia Fides: Organo di informazione delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie dal 1927

An Italian nun, Sister Maria De Coppi, was killed in a terrorist attack in Chipene, Mozambique, late on Tuesday, her religious order, the Comboni Missionary Sisters, said on Wednesday. © ANSA

The killing of a nun in Mozambique has raised concerns that the Islamic State-linked insurgency is now taking hold in a new province — Nampula.