02.03.2004
Shock over Deaconess Doraci Edinger’s Killing in Nampula
GENEVA, 2 March 2004 (LWI) – Following the murder of Brazilian Lutheran missionary Deaconess Doraci J. Edinger in Nampula, Mozambique, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has expressed concern over apparent delays in the crime’s investigation and requested the Mozambican authorities that a thorough inquiry be “carried out expeditiously and the perpetrators be brought to justice.”
“We are concerned also by the circumstances of this crime,” acting LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Péri Rasolondraibe wrote to Mozambican Interior Minister Almerino Manhenje on February 27, following receipt of information about the death.
The 53-year-old woman was a missionary from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) working with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique (ELCM) since 1998 within an LWF-supported partnership program. She was reportedly found dead February 23, in her apartment in Nampula, 700 km north of the capital Maputo, but the murder has not yet been clarified by local police.
“We are deeply shocked by this brutal crime. The church in Mozambique, Sister Doraci’s home church in Brazil and the LWF are grieving for her loss,” Rasolondraibe wrote to Minister Manhenje.
The LWF also sent a letter of condolence to IECLB President Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, who had traveled to Mozambique, February 25, to make arrangements to repatriate Edinger’s remains. Altmann received the news of Edinger’s murder while in Geneva attending the February 21-23 meeting of the LWF Executive Committee. He was originally scheduled to travel to Mozambique’s port city of Beira to attend an ELCM meeting, February 26-27.
An LWF letter to ELCM acting pastor, Dean Hendricks Mavunduse, urged the church “to do whatever is necessary to help expedite this investigation.”
Edinger was born on 13 May 1950 in Santo Antonio da Patrulha, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. At age 18 she moved with her parents to Novo Hamburgo, where her family still lives today. She worked at a shoemaker’s and eight years later decided to become a Lutheran missionary. Her family, parents and eleven children, have received condolences from the Lutheran community in Canudos, Novo Hamburgo, the Latin American and Caribbean news agency, ALC, reports.
Shock over Deaconess Doraci Edinger’s Killing in Nampula
GENEVA, 2 March 2004 (LWI) – Following the murder of Brazilian Lutheran missionary Deaconess Doraci J. Edinger in Nampula, Mozambique, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has expressed concern over apparent delays in the crime’s investigation and requested the Mozambican authorities that a thorough inquiry be “carried out expeditiously and the perpetrators be brought to justice.”
“We are concerned also by the circumstances of this crime,” acting LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Péri Rasolondraibe wrote to Mozambican Interior Minister Almerino Manhenje on February 27, following receipt of information about the death.
The 53-year-old woman was a missionary from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) working with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mozambique (ELCM) since 1998 within an LWF-supported partnership program. She was reportedly found dead February 23, in her apartment in Nampula, 700 km north of the capital Maputo, but the murder has not yet been clarified by local police.
“We are deeply shocked by this brutal crime. The church in Mozambique, Sister Doraci’s home church in Brazil and the LWF are grieving for her loss,” Rasolondraibe wrote to Minister Manhenje.
The LWF also sent a letter of condolence to IECLB President Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, who had traveled to Mozambique, February 25, to make arrangements to repatriate Edinger’s remains. Altmann received the news of Edinger’s murder while in Geneva attending the February 21-23 meeting of the LWF Executive Committee. He was originally scheduled to travel to Mozambique’s port city of Beira to attend an ELCM meeting, February 26-27.
An LWF letter to ELCM acting pastor, Dean Hendricks Mavunduse, urged the church “to do whatever is necessary to help expedite this investigation.”
Edinger was born on 13 May 1950 in Santo Antonio da Patrulha, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. At age 18 she moved with her parents to Novo Hamburgo, where her family still lives today. She worked at a shoemaker’s and eight years later decided to become a Lutheran missionary. Her family, parents and eleven children, have received condolences from the Lutheran community in Canudos, Novo Hamburgo, the Latin American and Caribbean news agency, ALC, reports.
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