A cathedral and a school have been targeted in what appears to be a spate of anti-Catholic violence.
During the night of 7 November, St Mary’s Cathedral in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was hit by a crude bomb that exploded just outside the church, the centre of Catholic life in the country. St Joseph’s School and College, about five kilometres away, was also attacked with a bomb.
Despite the attack, which was clearly intended to end Christian lives and warn believers against practising their faith, no injuries were reported. The cathedral, which celebrates a daily 6.30 a.m. Holy Mass, with early morning Mass being customary on the Indian subcontinent, saw around 500 worshippers attend the Saturday morning service in defiance of the terrorists’ attempt.
