Benedict spoke to pilgrims at his Castel Gandolfo summer palace where he will meet with ambassadors from predominantly Muslim countries on Monday.
It’s in a bid to defuse tension arising from a speech he gave on September 12 while on a pilgrimage in Germany.
Rosa Sgorbati, an Italian missionary who worked in a paediatrics hospital in Somalia under her religious name Sister Leonella was killed in Mogadishu on September 17.
It was the same day that the Pope said he was deeply sorry his remarks had offended Muslims and that his remarks did not reflect his own opinion.
"This nun, who for many years served the poor and the children in Somalia, died pronouncing the world 'pardon'," the pope told pilgrims during his traditional Sunday noon appearance.
"This is the most authentic Christian testimony, a peaceful sign of contradiction which shows the victory of love over hate and evil."
In a September 12 address at the University of Regensburg in Germany, Benedict cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterised some of the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed as "evil and inhuman", particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith".
Amid fury in the Muslim world, the Vatican also ordered papal representatives around the world to meet with leaders of Muslim countries to explain the pope's point of view and the full context of his speech.