Card. Maradiaga: An end to the murder of children

(Vatican Radio/FIDES) Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras has condemned the ongoing murder of children and violence in the nation.


"How sad to hear the news of children who are killed. Authors of these crimes are completely overwhelmed by evil", the Cardinal said in his homily on Sunday, May 11.


The country is still shocked by the killing of two 13 year old boys and one 7 years of age who had refused to cooperate with members of the "Pandilla 18" (one of the gangs that rage in the Country).
They were murdered in the district of La Pradera in the north of Honduras, at the end of April.


According to the local press the number of children killed for the same reason is increasing. The most violent areas of the country are Colon and San Pedro Sula