Blood on the walls and torn-up pews - inside bombed Sri Lanka church

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The human toll may have been removed but St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo is a devastating place to visit.

It is devastating to look at. And impossible to imagine the horror of what it must have been like, when the pews were full of people, and the bomb ripped through them.Outside, Father Jude Fernando, the administrator of the church, spoke to me. He was inside when the bomb went off.He said:"So it's very sad to see. I have no words to explain. But from the day the incident took place, the blast took place, we have not stopped celebrating the mass for the people.

"They gave the importance to that stone - a stone. They are worshipping the stone, they didn't realise that life is more important than the stone. That statue, they came to carry out the statue.A TV chef, a newlywed on honeymoon and entire families were among those killedI can't be sure whether the statue Gloria remembers is the same as the"miraculous" one. But she was there and she told me what she saw.

The rubble of St Anthony's bears witness to the tragedy that happened there. But the physical remains are nothing compared to the human lives lost and ruined.

 

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So much coverage of this story, yet when Israeli extremists attack Christians it’s never reported 🤔

So pleased we let them back after war ..what do they think will happen.they are savages before they go..

it was bombed . what were you expecting to have happened ?

And!? This is what bombs do , stupid journalism

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