Clergy in Mozambique have condemned the murder of a bishop who was shot dead in his home as a “barbaric act”.
Bishop Osório Citora Afonso, of Quelimane, eastern Mozambique – who was a project partner of the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need – was found shot in the chest at his residence in the early hours of Saturday June 6.
As of Monday June 8, both the perpetrators and the motive for the attack remained unknown.
The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar published a statement, signed by its president, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, calling the murder an “act of barbarism” and calling for a full investigation.
