TELEGRAMMA DI CORDOGLIO DEL SANTO PADRE PER L’UCCISIONE DI UN SACERDOTE DELLA CHIESA SIRO ORTODOSSA A BAGHDAD (IRAQ), 06.04.2008
TELEGRAMMA DI CORDOGLIO DEL SANTO PADRE PER L’UCCISIONE DI UN SACERDOTE DELLA CHIESA SIRO ORTODOSSA A BAGHDAD (IRAQ) Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per l’uccisione - avvenuta ieri a Baghdad - del sacerdote Yousef Adel Abudi, della Chiesa Siro-Ortodossa, inviato dal Santo Padre Benedetto XVI all’Arcivescovo Siro-Ortodosso di Baghdad, tramite la Nunziatura Apostolica in Iraq: ● TELEGRAMMA DEL SANTO PADRE HIS EMINENCE MAR SAVERIUS JAMIL HAWA SYRIAN ORTHODOX ARCHBISHOP OF BAGHDAD HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI WAS DEEPLY SADDENED TO LEARN OF THE RECENT TRAGIC DEATH OF THE REVEREND YOUSEF ADEL ABUDI OF THE SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH. HE OFFERS HIS WIFE AND FAMILY HIS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES. LIKEWISE, THE HOLY FATHER ASSURES YOUR EMINENCE, THE PRIESTS AND THE RELIGIOUS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF HIS CLOSENESS IN PRAYER. ENTRUSTING THIS DEVOTED SERVANT’S SOUL TO THE INFINITE MERCY OF GOD HIS HOLINESS PRAYS THAT ALL PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW THE WAYS OF PEACE IN ORDER TO BUILD A JUST AND TOLERANT SOCIETY IN THE BELOVED LAND OF IRAQ. CARDINAL TARCISIO BERTONE SECRETARY OF STATE [00521-02.01] [Original text: English] [B0230-XX.01]
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