” “The Pope too joined the fast that has been proclaimed by the Iraqi bishops to ask God for the gift of peace. This was said at the end of the Marian prayer of Angelus as he reminded the faithful in Saint Peter’s Square, Rome, that the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly, and the Iraqi bishops made an appeal to the faithful, the believers and the men of good will to join in prayer and fasting on April 3rd and 4th to "ask God for the gift of peace and harmony in Iraq and all over the world". "I invite everyone to join the initiative of our brothers of that tormented country, entrusting such intent to the intercession of the Most Holy Virgin, the Queen of Peace". Finally, in greeting the Italian pilgrims, Pope Benedict XVI recalled the tragic end of the kidnapping of baby Tommaso. "We are all struck he said by the event of baby Tommaso who was brutally killed: let’s pray for him and for all the victims of violence"” “
