Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per le vittime delle violenze avvenute ad Ambon (Indonesia), che il Santo Padre Giovanni Paolo II ha inviato, tramite il Cardinale Angelo Sodano, Segretario di Stato, al Vescovo di Amboina, S.E. Mons. Petrus Canisius Mandagi:

THE MOST REVEREND PETRUS CANISIUS MANDAGI
BISHOP OF AMBOINA
AMBON, INDONESIA

HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE NEW OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN AMBON, WHICH HAS RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF NUMEROUS LIVES, GRAVE INJURIES AND THE PILLAGING AND BURNING OF HOUSES, SCHOOL AND CHURCHES. AT THIS TIME OF SUFFERING AND GRAVE ANXIETY, HE WISHES TO ASSURE THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF HIS PATERNAL AFFECTION AND SOLIDARITY, AND HIS HEARTFELT PRAYER THAT PUBLIC ORDER AND PEACEFUL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL GROUPS WILL BE QUICKLY RESTORED.
HIS HOLINESS HAS PRAYED TO GOD OUR MERCIFUL FATHER FOR THE PEACE OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED AND THE COMFORT AND CONSOLATION OF ALL THE SUFFERING AND THOSE WHO MOURN.
TO YOU AS THE PASTOR OF THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY, TO THE PRIESTS, THE MISSIONARIES, THE MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS, AND TO ALL THE FAITHFUL THE HOLY FATHER CORDIALLY IMPARTS HIS APOSTOLIC BLESSING AS A PLEDGE OF STRENGTH IN THE LORD.

CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO
SECRETARY OF STATE

[00670-02.01] [Original text: English]

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