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NAIROBI, Kenya Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in volatile regions of Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible. "I forgive, I forgive," she whispered in her native Italian just before she died, the Rev. Maloba Wesonga told The Associated Press at the nun's memorial mass in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday.

Report: Catholic priest missing in Iraq; London jihadis: "Pope Benedict watch your back" By Michelle Malkin   ·   September 17, 2006 08:15 PM Catholic columnist Matt Abbott writes: A third priest may now have become a victim of the violence and lawlessness in Baghdad. Father Basil Salem Yaldo was last seen leaving a church building in the Dora area of Baghdad. He is the personal secretary to the Catholic Patriarch for Iraq. At the time of his disappearance, a car bomb had exploded in the vicinity and a round-up of suspects took place by Iraqi and Coalition Security Forces. It is...

Gunmenshot dead a 65-year-old Italian nun at a hospital in Somali capital, Mogadishu. Sister Leonella had worked in Africa for nearly 40 years, her family said.