Vatican strongly condemned the murder of 3 evangelist pastors in Turkey. "These assassinations are acts of madness and the monstrous invention of a fanatic minority. Martyrdom is continuing in our times," said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who is the Vatican's secretary of state. He stressed that the crime did not endanger the rapport reached during the papal visit last December in Turkey.

Three evangelic pastors have been assassinated in Malatya - Turkey. The ecclesiastics were lacerated innumerable blows of knives, so much that they were unrecognizable. The genitals would have been torn off. Five principal suspects stopped by the Turkish Police have from 17 to 20 years old.