One of those missionaries was an Italian priest who moved to the area in 1852.

"The painful thing is that it's all about money now," the Italian priest said.

"Don't they see that killing that Italian priest was a bad thing?"

In 2009 several people came forward with accusations of sexual molestation against an Italian priest working in the country.

- 26 January 1662) was an Italian priest and composer.

The church is considered a minor basilica, and is run by Italian priests.

The College passed into the hands of Italian secular priests.

In that country, an Italian Catholic priest was recently murdered for what he represents.

In central Africa a few years ago, an Italian priest told me of a local bishop's children.

"Our enrollment is up from 30 children in 1980 to 1,500 today," said the satisfied school director, an Italian priest.