"I follow with great trepidation the extremely serious events that are taking place in Myanmar over these days and I wish to express my spiritual solidarity with that beloved population at the time of the painful ordeal they are going through". Yesterday morning, the Pope, after saying the Angelus from Castel Gandolfo, expressed his concern for what is happening in ex Burma. "As I assure of my sympathetic and intensive prayers and I ask the whole Church to do the same added Benedict XVI , I deeply hope a peaceful solution may be found for the good of the country". Then the Holy Father commended to the prayers of the devotees "the situation of the Korean peninsula, where some important developments in the talks between north and south Korea make us hope that the current efforts for reconciliation may get stronger for the good of the Korean population and to the benefit of peace and stability in the whole region".
