three the number of priests were killed. At least 58 victims. 72 injured
Dear friends, we, too, a few days away, we express our condolences for what happened Sunday night, Oct. 31, in Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad . As you know the death toll was 58 dead, including women and children , and 72 wounded, many of whom are in critical condition. Among the dead were three priests also : father Tha'ir Saad, Father Boutros Wasim Qatin and father.
While we join the grief of our brothers, we make our own the words spoken by Benedict XVI at the Angelus on Monday, November 1. << pray for the victims of this senseless violence , more ferocious as it has affected civilians, gathered in the house of God, which is home of love and reconciliation. I also express my affectionate closeness to the Christian community, struck again, and I encourage all pastors and faithful to be strong and firm in hope. Faced with the brutal violence that continue to tear the peoples of the Middle East, I finally renew my appeal for peace: it is God's gift, but it is also the result of the efforts of men of good will , of national and international institutions. All join forces so that every time violence>>
Many people ask us if we are in danger. We assure everyone that in our land of religious freedom and a peaceful than was produced and persists, although with different issues, for nearly twenty years, ie after the fall of the Soviet empire.
fact remains that we, every day, we have to all an attitude of forgiveness, understanding and acceptance. These are just the weapons that help to accomplish all this exasperating conflict that declines each day the dead, as an infinite litany.
make our own heartfelt words of Pope Benedict XVI, worked and prayed for peace there and throughout the world
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