” “An appeal for Darfur and great concern for the Catholics of Sri Lanka, for violence in Iraq and in the Palestinian Territories. This was expressed in a final statement published today by the plenary assembly of the presidents of the Bishops Conferences of Europe (Ccee), which ended on October 8th in Saint Petersburg. "The Council of the Bishops Conferences of Europe write the bishops joins the cries for help for the population of the region of Darfur, in Sudan. Statistics are shocking: at least 200,000 victims and millions of evacuees. In such a complicated political scenario, the Bishops of Europe, along with their brethrens of the Sudanese Bishops Conference, worry about the victims of the humanitarian catastrophe and encourage the Catholics of Europe to do all they can to support their efforts, with prayer, with financial aids". No less serious are the news "coming from the Catholics of Sri Lanka", where "quite a few of them, including a few priests, have ‘disappeared’ without a trace and hundreds of people have been killed in the last few months". (to be continued)” “
