{"id":47071,"date":"2022-04-13T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47071"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T22:59:42","slug":"a-russian-tank-destroys-the-headquarters-of-caritas-in-mariupol-killing-seven-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/13\/a-russian-tank-destroys-the-headquarters-of-caritas-in-mariupol-killing-seven-people\/","title":{"rendered":"A Russian tank destroys the headquarters of Caritas in Mariupol killing seven people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian war crimes committed against the civilian population of Ukraine have also been directed against the headquarters of the Catholic NGO Caritas in Mariupol.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/13\/putin-repeats-in-ukraine-a-crime-against-humanity-that-stalin-committed-in-poland\/\">Putin repeats in Ukraine a crime against humanity that Stalin committed in Poland<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/08\/katyn-1940-bucha-2022-what-the-kremlin-can-do-to-deny-its-crimes\/\">Katyn 1940, Bucha 2022: what the Kremlin can do to deny its crimes<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A Russian tank fired on the Caritas headquarters despite being identified<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/caritasmariupol\/posts\/2962339960653294\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Caritas Mariupol on Monday<\/a>, <strong>a Russian tank fired on its headquarters<\/strong> on Bannyi Ln 4, despite being perfectly identified, as seen in the photo that heads these lines, published by Caritas Mariupol itself on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/caritasmariupol\/posts\/2962339960653294\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its Facebook page<\/a>. <strong>As a result of the attack, seven people were killed, including two employees of the Catholic NGO<\/strong> who were engaged in accounting work. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2022-04\/ukraine-mariupol-caritas-attack-russia-cardinal-tagle-interview.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VaticanNews<\/a>, the other five deceased were relatives of those two Caritas employees who had taken refuge in the building. <em>\"<strong>At that time, there were people hiding from the bombardment and seeking safe refuge with us<\/strong>,\"<\/em> says Caritas Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p><big>Caritas Mariupol continues to help those most in need despite the attack<\/big><\/p>\n<p><em>\"Unfortunately, <strong>we do not have precise information about the people who were in our office at that time<\/strong>, so we cannot say exactly who was there that day,\"<\/em> the NGO says, which <strong>today continues to carry out its work helping the most vulnerable in various parts of the city<\/strong>. From Caritas Mariupol they add: <em>\"Eternal memory for all those killed by Russian aggression. Our condolences to the families of our colleagues.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>Caritas Internationalis management is \"horrified and shocked\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Caritas Internationalis Secretary General, Aloysius John, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2022-04\/ukraine-mariupol-caritas-attack-russia-cardinal-tagle-interview.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated yesterday<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>This dramatic news leaves the Caritas family horrified and shocked<\/strong>. We join in grief and solidarity with the suffering of the families and our colleagues of Caritas Ukraine who are living a tragedy.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The President of Caritas Internationales, Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle y Gokim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2022-04\/ukraine-mariupol-caritas-attack-russia-cardinal-tagle-interview.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>I feel deep sadness and shock at the news of the attack that led to the loss of lives.<\/strong> Caritas Internationalis expresses its profound sympathies and closeness to the families of those who lost their lives and were wounded.<strong> Our sadness turns into an appeal to the international community to exert every effort to bring this violence to an end<\/strong>, to return to dialogue, and to see a brother and sister in every person.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Asked about the people who are risking their lives in Ukraine to help people, like the murdered employees of Caritas Mariupol, Cardinal Tagle pointed out: <em>\"<strong>To the women and men risking their lives, we extend a word of sincere gratitude. You are doing a holy action, holy work.<\/strong> For every good action done selflessly, you are sowing seeds of truth, justice, love and peace that will change the world. <strong>God will make sure that your efforts will not be in vain. They will bear fruit.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian war crimes committed against the civilian population of Ukraine have also been directed against the headquarters of the Catholic NGO Caritas in Mariupol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[3324,16242,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-47071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-caritas-internationalis","tag-mariupol","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}