The companions of the nun Maria de Coppi assassinated by jihadists wrote a letter to Pope Francis in which they assured that “the steps of the missionaries in this land are not stopped by violence”.
It was the journalist Eva Fernández, COPE correspondent in Italy, who delivered this letter to Pope Francis along with a “capulana”, the typical Mozambican cloth with which the dead are usually wrapped before being buried and also newborn children born.
With a similar capulana they buried Maria de Coppi, the Comboni missionary of Mozambique the 84-year-old Italian nun who was murdered by jihadists on September 6 in the mission of Chipene (Mozambique), where she served as a missionary for almost 60 years.
In the letter, which the journalist gave to Pope Francis during the outbound flight to Kazakhstan, the missionaries explained that this fabric “is a symbol of the life of the people of Mozambique and of so many peoples of Africa. It belongs to women, also to the poorest, because thanks to this fabric they take care of life, from the beginning to the end”.
They also assured that at this time Mozambique “needs to be protected with the capulana of prayer, justice, proximity and solidarity.”
“The death of our sister will regenerate missionary life in Mozambique and throughout the world,” the nuns wrote in the letter delivered to the Pope.
“With immense pain for the murder of our sister, Maria De Coppi, and for the attack on the Chipene mission on September 6, the Comboni Missionary Sisters want to reaffirm our commitment to remain united in prayer, solidarity and the Mission. , just when the work is hardest”, reads below.
Finally, they pointed out that the death of Maria de Coppi “will become a seed that will regenerate missionary life in Mozambique and throughout the world.”