TELEGRAM FOR EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE

VATICAN CITY, SEP 9, 1999 (VIS) - Made public today was a telegram sent by the Holy Father to Archbishop Paul Fouad Tabet, apostolic nuncio in Greece, for last Tuesday's earthquake which struck Athens and the surrounding area:

"Having heard with deep emotion of the tragic earthquake which struck Athens and the surrounding area, I ask you to express my most sincere condolences and most profound sympathy to all those harshly affected by the tremors. I ask the Lord to accept the victims into His light and to bring comfort to the injured and to families who mourn. I pray the Almighty to inspire the country's people and the international community to renewed sentiments of solidarity and charity, in order that the people of Greece struck by this drama may be helped and that the urgent needs of the population may be met, assisting them to reconstruct that which has been destroyed. Entrusting to God all those struck by the tragedy, I invoke the blessing of the Most High upon the people of Greece.

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