Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per le vittime degli attacchi terroristici in atto da ieri sera a Mumbai in India, inviato dal Santo Padre Benedetto XVI all’Arcivescovo di Bombay, Card. Oswald Gracias, tramite il Cardinale Segretario di Stato:

HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL OSWALD GRACIAS
ARCHBISHOP OF BOMBAY

DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN MUMBAI, THE HOLY FATHER ASKS YOU KINDLY TO CONVEY HIS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THESE BRUTAL ATTACKS, AND TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, CITIZENS, AND ALL THOSE AFFECTED OF HIS SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS. HIS HOLINESS URGENTLY APPEALS FOR AN END TO ALL ACTS OF TERRORISM, WHICH GRAVELY OFFEND THE HUMAN FAMILY AND SEVERELY DESTABILIZE THE PEACE AND SOLIDARITY NEEDED TO BUILD A CIVILIZATION WORTHY OF MANKIND’S NOBLE VOCATION TO LOVE GOD AND NEIGHBOUR. THE HOLY FATHER PRAYS FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS OF THE VICTIMS AND IMPLORES GOD’S GIFT OF STRENGTH AND COMFORT FOR THOSE WHO ARE INJURED AND IN MOURNING.

CARDINAL TARCISIO BERTONE
SECRETARY OF STATE

[01832-02.01] [Original text: English]

[B0738-XX.01]