VATICAN CITY, April 25 — Pope Francis urged Sri Lankan authorities today to reveal who was behind the country’s 2019 Easter bombings in an attack the island’s Catholics suspect was a plot to propel President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power.
“Please, out of love for justice, out of love for your people, let it be made clear once and for all who were responsible for these events,” the pope said in an appeal to Colombo.Addressing some 3,500 Sri Lankans in Italy, including some of the victims, the pope also said he prayed that Sri Lanka will also be able to ride out the worst economic crisis in its history.
The head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, Malcolm Ranjith, who conducted mass at St. Peter’s basilica just before meeting with the pope on Monday, called for “justice and change” in his country. Cardinal Ranjith last month urged the UN Human Rights Council to set up a mechanism to probe the 2019 suicide bombings which Colombo had blamed on local Islamic radicals.
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