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Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora Honored at Mass
Sept. 21, 2000

LONDON (AP) — Friends, family and colleagues gathered Thursday for a simple memorial Mass for Associated Press Television News cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, slain four months earlier in Sierra Leone.

"Miguel had done on earth what God wanted him to do, and he did it very well,'' the Rev. Robert Farrell, the presiding priest, told about 150 people assembled at St. James's Church in London.

It was the latest of several memorials honoring Gil Moreno de Mora, who died along with Kurt Schork, a correspondent for the Reuters news agency, in a May 24 rebel ambush while covering the civil war in Sierra Leone.

Colleagues traveled from all over the world to attend Gil Moreno de Mora's funeral in his hometown of Vimbodi, in eastern Spain. Another memorial was held in July in Sarajevo, scene of only one of the many violent and dangerous conflicts he had covered.

The Bosnian government awarded posthumous citizenship to Gil Moreno de Mora and Schork to honor them for their work.

At the London Mass, Farrell, who was a friend of Gil Moreno de Mora, said he believed the 32-year-old Spaniard ``was convinced he was called to holiness of life.''

"He had no doubt that how he carried out his professional work had a lot to do with that holiness,'' he said.


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