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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who was slain outside a hospital where she worked as a missionary in Somalia's restive capital, was remembered Thursday as a devoted nun who was willing to die to help the starving and sick in Africa.
The 65-year-old nun was shot in the back four times Sunday in attack possibly linked to worldwide Muslim anger toward Pope Benedict XVI, who had quoted a Medieval text that characterized some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman." Her bodyguard also was killed.
"She was ever so generous," Sister Rose, her colleague at the Consolata Sisters of Kenya, said at a funeral that drew hundreds of mourners. "In the end, she gave her whole life. May the sacrifice of her life contribute to the peace of the world and of Somalia in particular."
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