[caption id="attachment_18570" align="alignright" width="285"] Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Veronika Terezia Rackova, director of St. Bakhita Medical Center in Yei, South Sudan, died May 20 at a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. The Holy Spirit Missionary Sister, who was shot in the stomach in Yei, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Father Liam Dunne) See SOUTH-SUDAN-NUN-KILLED May 20, 2016.[/caption]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) - Missionaries and other Catholics gathered in Nairobi May 23 for a requiem Mass for a Slovak nun killed in Yei, South Sudan.
Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Veronika Theresia Rackova, 58, director of St. Bakhita Medical Center in Yei, was shot the night of May 16 while driving an ambulance after taking an expectant mother to the hospital. When the ambulance was attacked by soldiers, Sister Rackova was wounded in the hip and abdomen.
After two surgeries in Yei, she was evacuated to Nairobi, where she died May 20.
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