Church in Sri Lanka organises a march for justice and blesses the new Chapel of the martyrs to commemorate the Easter massacres
In 2019 on this day, a bomb blasted at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels, killing more than three hundred people. This year, to commemorate the victims, the Church in Sri Lanka organised a march for justice and blessed the new Chapel of the martyrs.
“We invoke God and call on the government for justice. Tomorrow church bells across the nation will ring to commemorate the victims of the attacks of the 21st of April 2019, when terrorists committed a massacre in Sri Lanka. Then there will be two minutes of silence, and the whole nation will stop to remember. Catholic schools will remain closed. And all fifteen Bishops, with Catholic priests, religious and faithful, will inaugurate the new Chapel of the martyrs that we built in the cemetery in Negombo, the site of one of the attacks, thanks to the offers we collected with the international network of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
Then there will be a silent march for peace and justice that will end at the church of St. Sebastian in Katuwapitiya, also in Negombo, one of the most damaged churches from the attacks. Here we will celebrate a solemn commemoration Mass. All this to ask for God’s help and to urge the government of Colombo to promote authentic justice for our martyrs”, told Father Basil Fernando, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Sri Lanka to Agenzia Fides, yesterday, the 20th of April.
Source: Fides.org
