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What has happened is a downright barbaric Act done by the followers of Islam!!!
(BBC) - A Roman Catholic bishop has been stabbed to death in southern Turkey, state-run media report.
Most Rev.Bishop Luigi Padovese, 63, was attacked in the garden of his summer house in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, according to Anatolia news agency.
Police have arrested Bishop Padovese's driver, a man identified only as Murat A.
There has been a series of attacks on Christians in Turkey in recent years.
Bishop Padovese, the Pope's apostolic vicar in Anatolia and an Italian national, died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
The Vatican said it was "dismayed" by Mr Padovese's death.
"It is a terrible... incredible" killing, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told the Italian news agency ANSA.
Provincial Governor Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz told Associated Press news agency that the suspect had worked for Mr Padovese for four-and-a-half years.
Bishop's Padovese's murder was the latest of several such attacks in the country over recent years, where Christians compose less than 1% of the mainly Muslim population.
In 2007, a Catholic priest in the western city of Izmir was wounded after being stabbed by a 19-year-old after Sunday Mass.
In the same year, three Christians were killed in a Bible-publishing house in the Anatolian city of Malatya.
Most Rev.Bishop Luigi Padovese, 63, was attacked in the garden of his summer house in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, according to Anatolia news agency.
Police have arrested Bishop Padovese's driver, a man identified only as Murat A.
There has been a series of attacks on Christians in Turkey in recent years.
Bishop Padovese, the Pope's apostolic vicar in Anatolia and an Italian national, died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
The Vatican said it was "dismayed" by Mr Padovese's death.
"It is a terrible... incredible" killing, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told the Italian news agency ANSA.
Provincial Governor Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz told Associated Press news agency that the suspect had worked for Mr Padovese for four-and-a-half years.
Bishop's Padovese's murder was the latest of several such attacks in the country over recent years, where Christians compose less than 1% of the mainly Muslim population.
In 2007, a Catholic priest in the western city of Izmir was wounded after being stabbed by a 19-year-old after Sunday Mass.
In the same year, three Christians were killed in a Bible-publishing house in the Anatolian city of Malatya.
