The bishop’s mother struck: “Maybe someone would have preferred a dinka instead of him. Ask him to come back? Maybe there they need my Christian more than we do.”

VICENZA. “Christian called us this morning at 7, he wanted us to hear his voice, he didn’t want to worry us too much.” Marcellina Leder, 63 years old, mother of Christian Carlassare, had just finished hearing the tragedy of the missionary from Vicenza Nadia De Munari on the morning news when the call of her son arrived. “They shot me, but I’m fine, I was only shot in the legs,” he told them before starting the process of being transferred to a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.