Cardinal Ranjith stated that “This is a beginning, and it is a very happy beginning, and we are very happy that the learned judges gave us such hope for a future for this country, which is a much-needed hope for the development of our nation.”
Pope Francis meets a delegation of the victims of Sri Lanka’s Easter bombing, along with Sri Lankan Catholics working in Italy, and calls for authorities to reveal the truth behind the 2019 attacks.
Catholics in Sri Lanka wore black and hoisted black flags on Saturday, August 21, to show their indignation over the government’s failure to solve the 2019 Easter Sunday attack on churches.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo led the lighting of candles at St. Anthony’s Catholic church where 56 people died when suicide bombers carried out one of the attacks.
A Sri Lankan priest criticized the government’s response to last year’s Easter bombings, saying the failure to thoroughly investigate has amounted to a betrayal of the people.
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.
