” “”Deeply grieved at the news of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, assures all the affected people of his spiritual sympathy in prayer”. This is the beginning of the condolence telegram for the victims of the terrorist attacks that last night, according to a temporary count, killed 183 people and wounded 700, on the trains and in the stations of the suburbs of Mumbai (Bombay), which was sent today by Benedict XVI through the Secretary of State, cardinal Angelo Sodano, to the civil and church authorities. “By condemning these foolish deeds against mankind reads on the letter the Holy Father entrusts the many dead people to the loving mercy of the Almighty” and, for their families and the many wounded people, "he invokes God’s gifts of strength, consolation and comfort”.” “
