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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Vatican honours Isis attack victims in one of last acts of Pope Francis papacy

The Vatican has named 167 of its faithful killed in the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka as "witnesses of faith" in what appears to be one of the last papal acts of Pope Francis before his death.

Hundreds of people, including leaders from other regions, attended a vigil Monday in memory of the victims at the church of St Anthony targeted in the bombings.

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