andrea santoro

Andrea Santoro (7 September 1945, in Priverno, Italy – 5 February 2006, in Trabzon, Turkey) was a Catholic priest in Turkey, murdered in Trabzon where he served as a member of the Catholic Church's Fidei donum missionary program. The murder was one of Turkey's high-profile anti-Christian incidents, along with the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the Zirve Publishing House murders that focused attention on hate crimes in Turkey.