VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Assuring his prayers for the victims and families of the terrorist attack in Brussels, Pope Francis condemned the "cruel abominations" and prayed for the conversion of those who adhere to violent fundamentalism.
"To all, I ask that you persevere in prayer and in asking the Lord in this Holy Week to comfort the hearts of the afflicted and to convert the hearts of those people taken in by cruel fundamentalism," the pope said at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square March 23.
Saying he followed the tragic news of the bombings with a "sorrowful heart," the pope expressed his closeness to "the dear people of Belgium, to all the families of the victims and to all the wounded."
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