German Church representatives urged people not to turn against Muslim refugees and asylum seekers, after police killed an Afghan refugee who had attacked people on a train.
Markus Hauck, spokesman for Germany's Würzburg diocese, where the incident occurred, said it was important not to use the incident "as a general indictment against refugees. It would be much more dangerous to suggest they all pose some kind of danger."
"Catholics are shocked; people assume acts of terrorism only happen in large cities, not in a small town like ours," Hauck told Catholic News Service.
