Sri Lanka Catholics pray for Easter bombing victims
Devotees cry as they pray near St Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo, a week after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. – AFP pic, April 28, 2019
CHURCH bells today tolled at Colombo’s devastated St Anthony’s Shrine, as scores of Christians wept but defiantly prayed and lit candles for the victims of the horrific Easter bombings. The bells rang out at 8.45am, the moment a jihadist suicide bomber detonated his device inside the 18th-century church on Easter Sunday, one of six attacks on churches and luxury hotels that left 253 dead.
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