Havana, Aug 8 (ACN) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State at the Holy See, today sent a letter to Emilio Aranguren Echeverría, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (COCC), on behalf of Pope Francis.
From the COCC Twitter account, the Holy Father’s message was shared showing his spiritual closeness to the Cuban people and to all the families of those affected by the incident that has lasted for several days.
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— Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba (@obispos_cuba) August 8, 2022
“The Holy Father is closely following the news that arrives about the unfortunate accident that has caused a fire and several explosions at the Supertanqueros Matanzas base, with at least one deceased and numerous wounded and missing.”
Likewise, Pope Francis assures his spiritual closeness to the Cuban people and to all the families of those affected, and prays to the Lord to grant them strength in this moment of pain and sustain the work of extinction and search. With these sentiments, he imparts to them heartfelt comforting apostolic blessing, as a pledge of hope in the risen Christ”.