COMMEMORATION FOR VICTIMS OF SEPTEMBER 11

VATICAN CITY, SEP 11, 2002 (VIS) - This morning, in the chapel at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, there was a solemn eucharistic concelebration to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11.

At the beginning of the mass, Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, expressed the "solidarity of the Holy See with all those who have suffered and continue to suffer the consequences of that terrible day." In addition, he invited everyone to pray for the deceased and for just and lasting peace in the world.

Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, will celebrate a mass this evening for peace and justice in the American parish of St. Susanna in which American residents of Rome will participate.

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