Luca Attanasio

Luca Attanasio (23 May 1977 – 22 February 2021) was an Italian diplomat who served as the ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Quotes about Luca Attanasio

• The ambassador was a friend I had met thanks to the Xaverian fathers. He loved the Congo and the Congolese very much. He was in North Kivu on a humanitarian mission. He was a man of peace and great friendship. May his soul rest in peace.
  • Sébastien-Joseph Muyengo Mulombe, Testimony of the Bishop of Uvira on the prevailing insecurity in particular due to the struggle for land grabbing (25 February 2021) Fides News Agency

• I want Ambassador Luca Attanasio's children to know that their father lives in the many children he helped to be born. Saint Esprit maternity hospital is the tangible sign that life does not die.
  • Chiara Castellani, A maternity hospital, "the dream" of Ambassador Attanasio (22 December 2021) Fides News Agency

• The story of Luca Attanasio is a personal suffering for me. Luca was not only the Italian Ambassador to Kinshasa but he was a friend who often came to visit me. He went everywhere and was very friendly with the population and did so much for the poor in terms of charity. A person like Luca did not deserve what happened to him, it is still a terrible shock to me.
  • Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Cardinal Ambongo: "unscrupulous greed" is the root of new colonialisms (21 March 2024) Fides News Agency'