Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma che il Santo Padre Giovanni Paolo II ha inviato, tramite il Cardinale Angelo Sodano, Segretario di Stato, al Vescovo di Khulna (Bangladesh), S.E. Mons. Michael Atul D’Rozario, appresa la notizia del tragico attentato di ieri alla Chiesa cattolica di Baniarchar:

THE RIGHT REVEREND MICHAEL ATUL D’ROZARIO
BISHOP OF KHULNA

DEEPLY SADDENED BY NEWS OF THE EXPLOSION AT BANIARCHAR CHURCH, THE HOLY FATHER ASKS YOU TO CONVEY TO THE PARISHIONERS THE ASSURANCE OF HIS CLOSENESS IN PRAYER AT THIS TIME OF TRAGEDY AND LOSS. HIS HOLINESS COMMENDS THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER’S MERCY, AND UPON THEIR GRIEVING FAMILIES AND THE INJURED HE INVOKES THE POWERFUL INTERCESSION OF MARY, COMFORTER OF THE AFFLICTED. CONDEMNING ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION, HE APPEALS TO ALL TO COOPERATE IN ENSURING A CLIMATE OF PEACE AND RESPECT. AS A PLEDGE OF COMFORT AND STRENGTH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THE HOLY FATHER CORDIALLY IMPARTS HIS APOSTOLIC BLESSING.

CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO
SECRETARY OF STATE

[00941-02.02] [Original text: English]