Cardinal Addresses South African Violence

(26 May 08 - RV) The President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples has sent a telegram of solidarity to the Archbishop of Johannesburg, and President of the South African Catholic Bishops Conference, Buti Tlahagale following the recent violence that has affected foreigners in the country.

In the Telegram Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino expresses his deep condolences on behalf of the dicastery to the families of the deceased and his sympathy to all those who have been affected by what he called these “deplorable events”.

The Cardinal also offers prayerful, and moral support and adds that with the fraternal interventions of the church he is confident that a lasting solution for this and other such situations will be found and that the people in the region will again live in peace, and solidarity.

The Rector of the International Missionary College of St. Paul the Apostle, Fr Daniel Corijn, recently moved to Rome after 26 years of work in South Africa.


He spoke with us about the present crisis…