Vatican calls for arson investigation at Nicaragua cathedral cruxnow.com
An arson attack on Managua’s cathedral has drawn the attention of Pope Francis and the Vatican after Nicaragua’s vice president initially dismissed it as an accidental fire.
The Vatican’s top diplomatic envoy in Nicaragua said Monday that he had requested the Nicaraguan government ensure a “serious, careful and transparent investigation” into the attack on the capital’s cathedral.
“We feel deep sadness and astonishment,” Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, the apostolic nuncio, said of Friday’s attack that badly burned a chapel at Managua’s Metropolitan Cathedral, including a sculpture of Jesus Christ…
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