Saturday, August 30, 2008
Pray for Fraciscan monks brutally attacked
Turin, Aug 29, 2008 / 11:46 am (CNA).- On Wednesday hooded attackers assaulted Franciscan monks at a monastery in the Alps foothills near Turin, leaving one priest severely injured and the three other victims hospitalized. The Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Severino Poletto, called the attack “beyond comprehension” and only explicable if the attackers had been “either drugged or possessed, or both.”
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Father Sergio Baldin, the Franciscan friar who is fighting for his life after being savagely attacked at a monastery in the foothills of the Alps near Turin, had recently enraged a local criminal gang by helping an Albanian prostitute to escape its clutches, church sources said today.
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Praying Easter. I would also direct your attention and prayers to the priests, nuns and other Christians in Orissa.
http://orissaburning.blogspot.com/
hugs,
Esther!!!
Thank you!
Funny, that was the last thing I read before reading your comment here.
Thanks and love,
Easter
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