Priests arrested after bishop-designate shot in South Sudan

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Gunmen broke into the home of the bishop-designate of Rumbek, South Sudan, shot him in both legs and fled, according to church news reports. Three local priests have been arrested.
In stable condition after emergency surgery at a local hospital, Italian-born Bishop-designate Christian Carlassare, 43, was to be transferred to a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, for a transfusion and further medical care, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
"Do not pray for me but for the people of Rumbek who are suffering more than me," said the bishop-designate, who is a Comboni missionary, in a statement reported by the Comboni mission website, Nigrizia.it.

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