Philippine Asian News Today Vol 19 No 10 | Page 25

May 16 - 31, 2017
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
Pope condemns
Kabul attack
Pope Francis condemned the
“abhorrent” truck bombing in Ka-
bul’s diplomatic quarter that left at
least 80 people dead on Wednes-
day.
“Having learned with sadness
of the abhorrent attack in Kabul
and of the many dead and seriously
injured, Pope Francis expresses his
heartfelt condolences to all affect-
ed by this brutal act of violence,”
the Vatican said in a message to
Afghanistan’s embassy in Italy.
“His Holiness commends the
souls of the deceased to the mercy
of the Almighty, and assures the
people of Afghanistan of his con-
tinued prayers for peace,” added
the message, sent by telegram as
per Vatican custom.
The powerful blast from a
truck stuffed with more than 1,500
kilograms (3,300 pounds) of ex-
plosives, which hit the highly-forti-
fied area in the morning rush hour,
came just days into the Muslim holy
fasting month of Ramadan.●
- Associated Press
What PH bishops did to
revive the ‘Angelus’
Twelve members of the Catho-
lic Bishops’ Conference of the Phil-
ippines (CBCP) recently recorded
the Angelus in eight of the most
widely-spoken Philippine languag-
es in a bid to reintroduce the once-
popular family prayer to today’s
Filipino Catholics as well as pro-
mote regional culture.
“The Angelus project aims
to revive the habit of