COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s catholic religion says the Vatican has named 167 of its honest killed in Islamic State-inspired suicide bombing six years ago as testimonies of trust.
Hundreds, including Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic religious images, attended a ceremony Monday in remembrance of the patients at the chapel of St. Anthony, targeted in the problems.
Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, told the guests Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, director of the Dicastery for the Causes of Souls in the Vatican, has included the titles of 167 catholic who died in the attacks in the parishes of St. Anthony in Colombo and St. Sebastian in Negombo “in the library of the testimony of the belief in its attempt book, considering the framework of their courage. “
He said they were chosen “due to harsh criticism to their beliefs motivated by’odium fidei,’ the love of the trust. ” Ranjith even said seven victims of other beliefs were “respectfully remembered. “
Testimonies of beliefs are those who sacrificed their lives for their opinion. Pope Francis formalized in 2023 a new type of acknowledgement by the chapel of people who lost their lives while professing the religious faith and created a unique Vatican commission to archive their cases. The percentage, based in the Vatican’s saint-making company, has gathered hundreds of cases, with a view to highlighting them alongside formally recognized victims of the temple, who are on the path to possible resurrection or beatification.
More than 260 folks, including 42 immigrants, were killed in the near-simultaneous attacks during Easter Sunday at three holiday resorts and three parishes, two Catholic and one Christian, on April 21, 2019.
The catholic chapel in Sri Lanka has demanded more probing in the attacks, particularly after American television Channel 4 interviewed a man who said that he arranged a meeting between a regional IS-inspired group, National Thowheed Jamath, and a major state intelligence official to hatch a plot to create insecurity in Sri Lanka and help former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to win the presidential election later that year.
