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The murder of the Vatican's representative in Turkey will not affect dialogue with Islam, Pope Benedict XVI said Friday as he travelled to Cyprus for a meeting with Middle Eastern bishops ahead of a synod at the Vatican later this year.
The pope said the death of Msgr Luigi Padovese, stabbed by his Turkish driver Thursday, "must not in any way overshadow the dialogue with Islam".
"One thing is sure, it was not a political or religious assassination".
The driver, 26-year-old Murat Altun, was being treated for psychiatric problems and reportedly told police he had a "Divine revelation" telling him to kill the bishop, according to Turkish media. Padovese, 63, Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, was the second Catholic priest to be murdered in Turkey in recent years after Father Andrea Santoro in 2006.