Daesh, in Yemen on behalf of the al-Saud family, is committing, as always, horrendous crimes, in the conspiracy of silence by the Western media enslaved to U.S. and Israel.
(HolyLandFree Newsroom)
Fr Tom is still missing
One week after the attack on the house of the Missionaries of Charity in Aden, in Yemen, there is still no news of the Indian Salesian missionary Fr Tom Uzhunnalil. Fr Francesco Cereda, Vicar of the Rector Major, gave several interviews in recent days to maintain media attention on the death of the Sisters and the situation of the missing Salesian.
“So far we have no hypothesis regarding the reasons for his disappearance. It seems that it is a case of kidnapping” he told the Italian newspaper Avvenire. “The Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Sushma Swaraj, has given an assurance that the government will do everything in its power to locate Fr Tom, to have him released and to bring him back safe and sound. The Indian Bishops’ Conference, and in particular the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, Bishop Paul Hinder OFM Cap, are taking every possible initiative.”
Fr Cereda also confirmed that “the other Salesian priest in Yemen is in a safe place and keeping in constant contact with his superiors in India, almost every day. Apart from an understandable state of concern over the present situation, it seems that he is well.”
The Vicar of the Rector Major is amazed at the “deafening silence of the media”. “I cannot explain this indifference to which Pope Francis referred at the Sunday Angelus. This seems to be a sign of the change of values in traditionally Christian countries … On the contrary, in India, a country with a Hindu majority, there was sufficient coverage of the event.”
On the Salesian presence in Yemen, Fr Cereda told the Catholic News Agency: “We were aware that the situation was getting worse by the day … we realized that if all went away it would mean being deprived of the only organized Catholic presence in Yemen … so the decision was left to each individual.”
Regarding the future of Fr Uzhunnalil – and another Sister of the Missionaries of Charity who is also missing – Fr Cereda said:
“prayers are being said around the Salesian world for his early release. We believe that these efforts are not in vain”.
Appeal of the Rector Major
for prayer for peace and for Fr Uzhunnalil
In a video posted on the social networks, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, appeals to the whole Salesian Family for prayer for peace on Holy Thursday, with a special intention for Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, the Salesian kidnapped in Yemen.
Holy Thursday is a key moment of the liturgical year. On Holy Thursday Jesus instituted the Eucharist and the priesthood, he began his Passion and was totally abandoned to the will of the Father. This is why the Church has always celebrated special vigils and moments of intense prayer on that day.
For this very reason, looking at the suffering in so many parts of the world, “with so many people of different religions and confessions suffering a real martyrdom”, Fr Á.F. Artime invites everyone “to spend a time of very intense prayer on Holy Thursday evening, as we accompany Jesus in the pain and loneliness of Gethsemane”.
“I sincerely hope that all our Salesian Family throughout the world and our young people will be united, in different places and at different times, in this one prayer for peace” continues the video message.
Speaking on behalf of the whole Congregation, the Rector Major “also expressed our closeness and our solidarity” with the family of Fr Uzhunnalil. While assuring them that he is monitoring closely the painful affair, he asks the Lord to give Fr Tom “a deep peace that he may live through the experience trusting in the Lord Jesus.”
First Published by InfoANS
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