AN ITALIAN Roman Catholic missionary was killed in a grenade attack by Sudanese-backed Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in northern Uganda, a Catholic missionary news agency said. The rebels killed Father Raffaele Di Bari, 71, near his mission in Pajule after he had celebrated mass some 20 km south of the city of Kitgum, and torched his car. Father Di Bari, who was from Barletta in southern Italy and had been living in Uganda since 1959, had publicly denounced the activities of the LRA, which has plagued northern Uganda since 1987. – Reuters