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Turkey: priest’s convicted assassin shot by police

November 06, 2018

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CWN Editor's Note: A young Turkish man who was convicted of killing Father Andrea Santoro in 2006 was shot by police during a gunfight on November 4. The priest’s killer, Oguzhan Akdin, had been freed after he served a 10-year prison term for the murder.

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Mon21 September
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Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

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Today is the Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. At the time that Jesus summoned him to follow Him, Matthew was a publican, that is, a tax-collector for the Romans. His profession was hateful to the Jews because it reminded them of their subjection; the publican, also, was regarded by the…

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