Many people have been affected by the quake. Please keep them in your prayers.Just hours after an earthquake hit the city and province of L'Aquila in central Italy, causing dozens of deaths and major damage to churches and other buildings, Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the dead, their loved ones and rescue workers.
The quake struck April 6 at 3:30 a.m. local time and was felt strongly even in Rome, about 70 miles west of L'Aquila.
Among the victims was Abbess Gemma Antonucci, head of the Poor Clares' cloister of St. Clare in Paganica, outside L'Aquila.
Father Dionisio Rodriguez Cuartas, the pastor in Paganica and director of Caritas L'Aquila, said the roof of the Poor Clares convent caved in. As of midday April 6 rescue workers were still trying to free another of the nuns, he told SIR, the news agency of the Italian bishops' conference.
Italy's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, said at least 50 people died, including several children, throughout the region.
In a telegram to Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari of L'Aquila, the Vatican secretary of state said Pope Benedict had asked him to convey his "participation in the pain of the dear population struck by this tragic event."
The quake struck April 6 at 3:30 a.m. local time and was felt strongly even in Rome, about 70 miles west of L'Aquila.
Among the victims was Abbess Gemma Antonucci, head of the Poor Clares' cloister of St. Clare in Paganica, outside L'Aquila.
Father Dionisio Rodriguez Cuartas, the pastor in Paganica and director of Caritas L'Aquila, said the roof of the Poor Clares convent caved in. As of midday April 6 rescue workers were still trying to free another of the nuns, he told SIR, the news agency of the Italian bishops' conference.
Italy's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, said at least 50 people died, including several children, throughout the region.
In a telegram to Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari of L'Aquila, the Vatican secretary of state said Pope Benedict had asked him to convey his "participation in the pain of the dear population struck by this tragic event."
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