Pope 'saddened' by shooting of bishop

Pope Benedict XVI was “deeply saddened” by the killing of a Roman Catholic bishop in Kenya this week and expressed hope the prelate’s death would “hasten the dawn” of peace and reconciliation in the African country, the Vatican said today.

Bishop Luigi Locati, 76, was shot to death on Thursday night as he walked with a guard to his house from a dining hall for Catholic clergy in Isiolo, where he was based, about 125 miles northeast of Kenyan capital Nairobi.