Day in Memory of Missionary Martyrs
The Pope also recalled the Day in Memory of Missionary Martyrs which is marked on 24 March.
“During 2018,” he said, “many bishops, priests, nuns and lay faithful around the world suffered violence, while forty missionaries were killed: almost twice as many as the previous year”.
Pope Francis pointed out that it is a “duty of gratitude for the whole Church” to keep in mind this contemporary ordeal of brothers and sisters who are persecuted or killed because of their faith in Jesus.
It is also a stimulus, he said, “to courageously witness our faith and our hope in He, who on the Cross, defeated hatred and violence forever with his love”.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-03/pope-angelus-appeal-nicaragua-missionary-martyrs.html
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