On August 14, earlier this year, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna led a prayer service that took 7 hours. He is the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference and one of the favorites to replace Pope Francis in May. The service consisted mainly in the Cardinal reading out the names of the children killed in the war in Gaza and Palestine. They included 16 children from Israel and 12,211 from Palestine, probably even more as you’re reading this post. Cardinal Zuppi prayed on the eve of the Assumption of Mary that as Jesus took His mother Mary into heaven, may He take all these innocent children into heaven to protect them and others still alive from the violence that has dominated their lives over the past few years. The place where the service was held was in Monte Sole park, where in 1944, between September 29 and October 5 saw the brutal elimination of hundreds of defenceless civilians by Nazi and fascist troops, 800 victims, 216 of them children. They also destroyed the church at Casaglia where they were gathered. Let us remember and pray for these innocent children.
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