Father Marek Rybinski, a young Polish missionary working in Manouba,
was found dead early this morning, apparently the victim of a murder.
The
Salesian Information Agency is reported today that police found Father
Rybinski dead in a store room at the Salesian school with his throat
cut.
He is the second religious to be found dead in this recent period
of social unrest.
The priest was last seen Thursday morning at 10
a.m., and the Salesian community notified the police early today after
he had missed morning Mass.
Father Rybinski, 33, is a native of
the Warsaw Province in Poland, and was ordained in 2005.
He arrived in
Manouba in 2007, where he helped, through his contacts in the Polish
Missions Office, to “help to finance various projects for the good of
the school,” the Salesian news agency reported.
The young priest
was also the chaplain to the Polish community in Tunisia, and he had
spent a lot of time preparing the youngsters for Confirmation.
Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham of Tunisia presided at a Mass for Fr Rybinski in the cathedral of Manouba.