Spiritual closeness and prayer have been expressed today by Benedict XVI to the victims, the casualties and the families hit by the serious attack that took place in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday, which killed several people. In a telegram signed by the Secretary of State, card. Tarcisio Bertone, the Pope "invokes the maternal protection of the Virgin on the whole Lebanese nation". In the telegram, he also asks the Lebanese people and its rulers to "unanimously reject violence and find again, at such a dramatic time, the reasons of national unity and the common good".
