Angelina

A white dove in flight

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Date of Death
January 17, 2011

 

On January 17, 2011, Sr. Angelina, 37, of the local Institute of St. Augustine in the diocese of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, was killed by armed guerillas of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The nun was en route to a refugee camp where she was supplying aid.

Her murder was part of a long list of killings as the South Sudan Army and Rebel Factions clashed in different states of the East African nation.

References: http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2011/02/09/sudan_lord%E2%80%99s_resistance_army_murders_nun_/in2-461005