Fides, an agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of the People in the Vatican published the names of pastoral care workers, priests, religious and lay Catholics killed during 2010.
During 2010, 25 pastoral care workers were killed: one bishop, 17 priests, two religious, two seminarians and three lay people.
In South America, 12 priests, one religious, one seminarian and three lay people were killed: six in Brazil, four in Colombia, two in Mexico, two in Peru and one each in Venezuela, Haiti, and Ecuador.
In Asia one bishop, four priests, one religious died. These deaths occured in Iraq, China, India and Turkey.
In Africa, one priest and one seminarian were killed, both in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Their names are:
Fr. Jose Luis Parra Puerto, Mexico
Fr. Dejair Goncalves de Almeida, Brazil
Epaminondas Marques da Silva, Brazil
Luis Enrique Pineda, Colombia
Fr. Romain de Jesus Zapata, Colombia
Fr. Esteban Robert Wood, Venezuela
Fr. Peter Bombacha, India
Fr. Carlos Gonzalez, Colombia
Fr. Rubens Almeida Goncalves, Brazil
Bishop Luigi Padovese, Turkey
Mario Dayvit Pinheiro Reis, Brazil
Fr. Joseph Zhang Shulai, China
Sister Maria Wei Yanhui, China
Fr. Carlos Salvador Wotto, Mexico
Fr. Herminio Calero Alumia, Colombia
Fr. Linan Ruiz Morales, Peru
Ananias Aguila, Peru
Julien Kenord, Haiti
Fr. Josenir M. Santana, Brazil
Fr. Wasim Sabieh, Iraq
Fr. Thaier Saad Abdal, Iraq
Fr. Christian Bakulene, Congo
Fr. Bernardo Muniz Rabelo Amaral, Brazil
Nicolas Eklou Komla, Congo
Fr. Miroslaw Karczewski, Ecuador
To read the entire report, including a biographical description of each of these persons, go to: www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=28074&lan=eng
Once there click on the pdf link at the bottom of the page.
God bless them and all those who live risking their lives for the Gospel.
