The murder of a Nenagh-born Vatican diplomat in Africa will be raised by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern when he meets the Pope and Vatican officials in Rome on Wednesday.

A sculpture to honour an Irish archbishop murdered in Burundi in 2003 will be unveiled in Co Galway this weekend, it emerged tonight.

THE rebel group accused of murdering Irish Archbishop Michael Courtney in Burundi has given the head of the Catholic Church there one month to leave the country.

THE Pope’s representative in Burundi, an Irishman, was shot dead in an ambush yesterday.