Vatican's top official visits Sri Lanka

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
(ucanews.com) One of the Vatican's top officials has made an unheralded visit to Sri Lanka to show solidarity with Catholics still reeling
from the Easter suicide bombings that claimed over 250 lives and injured more than 400.Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Vatican
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, said during his three-day trip on May 22 that it was time to focus on rebuilding the
nation.The cardinal condemned the April 21 bombings on a handful of luxury hotels and churches in the capital Colombo and Negombo by local
extremists affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group as an attack on the nation as a whole, rather than being directed at Christians
alone.