"Martyrs witness that, today, Christ’s resurrection is still considered a piece of news to be communicated and supported", and not "a sort of myth repeated every year". Those words were spoken in Rome yesterday evening, by the Vatican secretary of state, Card. Tarcisio Bertone, while he addressed the young university students during the meeting promoted by the Coordination of the students of university colleges, in collaboration with the Office for the university pastoral of the Vicariate of Rome, during the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XV. It is a piece of news for which, "two thousand years later", "people are going on dying and living, because this is the good news making people live their lives fully; and thus, for that news, donating oneself is worth the trouble". Furthermore, alongside the meeting, the cardinal recalled the three Christians killed in Turkey last Wednesday, victims of an "insane gesture, the outcome of a fanatical minority". However, he added, "exactly the small herd of the Christians living in Turkey wanted to confirm the will and the joy of living as witnesses of Jesus Christ".
