Angelus: Pope prays for victims
of Egypt Coptic attack
Pope Francis expresses his sorrow at the terrorist attack
that struck the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt on Friday.
In words following the Angelus prayer to the faithful in St
Peter’s Square on Sunday, the Pope prayed for the victims; pilgrims killed, he
said, “for the mere fact of being Christians.”
Seven pilgrims were killed and a number of others injured in
the attack on two buses carrying Coptic Christians near to the
monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Minya. It was the latest in a series of
attacks by extremists on this Christian minority in the country. In May of last
year, gunmen fired at a bus carrying Christians to the same monastery, killing
at least 28 people.
Pope Francis recited the Hail Mary and asked Mary Most Holy to console the families and the entire community in the wake of this latest terrorist attack.
Pope Francis recited the Hail Mary and asked Mary Most Holy to console the families and the entire community in the wake of this latest terrorist attack.
Blessed Clelia Merloni
The Pontiff, during his address also remembered Mother
Clelia Merloni, who was beatified on Saturday in Rome’s Basilica of St John
Lateran. He spoke of the founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
as a woman “who fully abandoned herself to the will of God, who was zealous in
charity, patient in adversity and heroic in forgiveness.” Let us give thanks,
to God the Pope said, “for the luminous evangelical witness of this new Blessed
and let us follow her example of goodness and mercy.”
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