Word: nengapeta
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...Zaïre's capital of Kinshasa, 250,000 attended a Mass where the Pope performed the first beatification of a black African woman, Sister Marie-Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta, who was beaten and bayoneted to death in 1964 as she resisted a rape. Before a hushed assembly that included Anuarite's family, John Paul recounted that the martyred nun had, "like Christ," pardoned the soldier who assaulted her. Then he added dramatically, "And I too forgive her killer with all my heart, in the name of the entire church." The man, educated by missionaries, had asked publicly for the Pope...
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