UK/IRAQ: More than 2,000 mourners paid their respects to the murdered Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan in a memorial service at the weekend in Westminster Cathedral, London.
Tributes spoke of a peacemaker, caring wife and sister and a woman who "gave her life for the vulnerable and disadvantaged". A photograph of Ms Hassan tending to an Iraqi baby stood on the altar.
The 59-year-old was murdered last month after being kidnapped in Baghdad in October.
Leading a requiem mass, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, said she had died "through the cruel and violent actions of human beings".
He added: "I have called Margaret a martyr. I use the word advisedly because the word martyr means witness. Margaret witnessed, in both her life and her death, to the act of loving."
Ms Hassan was the director of CARE International in Iraq when she was seized by gunmen and later murdered. Her body has never been found.
A message from her four younger siblings remembered their "big sister" as a brave, charitable, humble and hardworking woman.
A memorial service was held in Kenmare Co Kerry last month.