Catholics in Sri Lanka have forgiven those behind the 2019 Easter bombing that killed at least 259, including 37 foreign nationals, and injured 500 others on April 19 last year.
“We forgave them,” said Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, at an Easter Sunday Mass on April 12, reported Vatican News.
He said that instead of retaliating, the country’s Catholic minority had contemplated Jesus’ message of hope and reduced tensions.
“We offered love to the enemies who tried to destroy us,” said the church leader during a livestream Mass from his residence to mark Easter Sunday.
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