Four Daughters of St Anne Sisters – including the provincial superior – were killed in a crash about 80 miles south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Catholic Near East Welfare Association has reported.
Four other Sisters were travelling in the van when it was hit by a truck en route to Hawassa on Tuesday. One of these remains in a critical condition, CNEWA reported.
Mgr John Kozar, president of CNEWA, had visited the Sisters last April.
"The news of the traffic death of four Sisters in Ethiopia, the Daughters of St Anne, touches our hearts and souls very deeply," Mgr Kozar said. "Having met the superior and many of the Sisters in previous pastoral visits, I know the Church of Ethiopia has lost some very devoted servants."
