Washington D.C., Sep 28, 2012 / 01:08 am
Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offered their support to the Church in Nigeria after a suicide car bomber attacked a cathedral in the northern region of the country.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones in this attack and with the scores of others who were wounded," said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, who chairs the conference's Committee on International Justice and Peace.
The clergymen expressed their sympathy over a recent suicide bombing in a Sept. 25 letter to Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria.
On the morning of Sept. 13, a suicide car bomber attacked St. John's Cathedral in Bauchi, a city in northern Nigeria, leaving at least two people dead and 45 injured, many of them seriously.