VATICAN CITY
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Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The suffering of Nigeria’s Christians, victims of bloody attacks, was at the centre of today’s Synod proceedings, which ended in a luncheon during which the pope met Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Primate of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, as well as the Council Fathers who are in Rome to mark the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

In addition to expressing participants’ solidarity towards Nigeria, the Synod addressed yesterday afternoon and this morning the issue of evangelising among sex abuse victims, the need to inform Church members about the “open opposition” of the mass media to Christianity, the need to adopt an approach based on pastoral charity towards divorced people who have remarried, and the new for a simplified enunciation of the principles of Christianity.

Today’s assembly opened with a meditation by Mgr John…