Friday, 15 July 2005 09:05
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Mons. Luigi Locati, the Apostoli Vikar of Isiolo, was murdered last night in the north of Kenya. The bishop originating from Italy was shot down from the ambush.
Left: Mons. Luigi Locati
Left: Mons. Luigi Locati
(, Rome kreuz.net) the crime occurred last night at 21.00 o'clock local time in the city Isiolo. Isiolo is in the center of Kenya.

Bishop Locati (77) had eaten in the Pastoralzentrum to evening and was about to go into his dwelling. At present there are still no details over the murder of the bishop.

When the angeschossene bishop von Hilfskräften was reached, it lived still. It could not be saved however. The bishop had been already threatened in the past.

Mons. Locati was born on 23 July 1928 in Vinzaglio in the Erzdiözese cellos. In June 1952 he became a priest of the same Erzdiözese. Cellos is in north Italy, 70 kilometers to the west of Milan.

Pope Benedikt XVI. and bishop Luigi Locati
Pope Benedikt XVI. and bishop Luigi Locati
Mons. Locati was dedicated in February 1996 in Rome to the bishop. It worked as Apostoli Vikar in the northKenyan city Isiolo.

„A Apostoli Vikar “administers a pastorales area, which is not yet edifying to the Diözese because of special circumstances. It possesses the rights however not necessarily the consecrations of a bishop.

The Apostoli Vikariat of Isiolo was only separated in the year 1995 from the Diözese Meru. The city Meru is in the heart of the country, approximately 30 kilometers south of Isiolo.

The again-creative Apostoli Vikariat was entrusted the Erzdiözese cellos.

That means that the Italian Erzdiözese priest supports the structure of the church structures into this area sent and there organizational and financially.

The area of Isiolo is landschaftlich from large beauty. There gives it in addition, many ethnic tensions and bandit, which penetrate from Somalia. The State of Somalia is the eastern neighbour of Kenya.

In the past days in the northeast of Kenya in the area by Turbi in master SPCists 75 persons - children enclosed - were massakriert.
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