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# Priest Killed
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3875/
- Published: 2006-02-06T17:32:14.000Z
- Updated: 2006-02-06T17:32:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Religion, #wpChunk

> A Catholic priest was shot and killed in Trabzon, Turkey, on Sunday, and authorities there are investigating whether the murder was related to Islamic anger over cartoons published in European newspapers.

> Father Andrea Santoro, an Italian missionary priest who had served in Turkey for 10 years, was shot twice at point-blank range in his church in the port town on the Black Sea. The gunman shouted, "Allah is great!" before running out of the church.

> Bishop Luigi Padovese of Anatolia, who rushed to the scene on hearing of the priest's death, told the AsiaNews service that the timing of the killing-- as Muslim militants around the world protest the cartoons mocking Islam-- "does not seem incidental to me." The bishop reported that the atmosphere in Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, "is heated, not to say overheated." Christian churches were under heavy security in the aftermath of the killing.

> Government investigators are also considering the possibilities that the assassin was a lone fanatic or that he was connected with the thriving prostitution business in Trabzon. Father Santoro had helped many young woman escape from lives of prostitution.

[*Catholic World News* Link](http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=42255&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Thanks, [Open Book](http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/02/murder%5Fin%5Fturke.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).