” “”We were friends and we met sometimes. In a conversation once he told me “we must be like the Immolated Lamb”. It was a comparison with the Jesus of the Apocalypse that struck me and I still remember. It occurred to me every time I though of him, because I think it defines his personality and his way of thinking and living”. These are the words of father Mauro Pesce, secretary general of the Turkish Bishops, as he recalls, with Sir, father Andrea Santoro, the Italian priest murdered in Turkey. “Here, we all think he was not murdered for some religious reason connected with the famous cartoons that are so much talked about these days states Father Pesce Father Andrea, as he was in Trabzon, on the Black Sea, bordering on Georgia, had seen the trade of girls from Ukraine, Russia and Georgia and had tried to help these girls. He had managed to rescue some by sending them here, in Istanbul, with their children, and last week he had come again to speak with our directors of the national Caritas to open a shelter. We had planned to go to him this week to develop this plan. We think he was murdered for this reason by the Turkish mafia”.
