Silvia Marsili, an official of Saverian missionaries' head convent in Parma, Italy, shows a photo of the three Italian missionary nuns, from left, Bernardetta Boggian, Olga Raschietti and Lucia Pulici, found slain in their convent in Burundi, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. The Italian foreign ministry confirmed the slayings in Kamenge, near Bujumbura, Burundi's capital. Pope Francis, in a condolence telegram to Bujumbura's archbishop, said he "learned with great sadness of the murder" of the three "faithful and devout nuns in these tragic circumstances." (AP Photo/Marco Vasini).
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