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Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey
Jun 3, 2010, 13:50 GMT
Istanbul - A top Catholic Church official in Turkey was stabbed to death in his home on Thursday, Turkish television broadcasters reported.
The reports said Vicar Apostolic for the Anatolia region, Bishop Luigi Padovese, was killed by a driver in the bishop's home in Iskenderun.
Further details were not immediately known.
In recent years, nationalist extremists in Turkey on several occasions have attacked or kidnapped Christian clergymen in the country.
Luigi Padovese took up his post in Iskenderun in southern Turkey in November 2004.
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