Slain Italian priest’s religious order pray for killers’ conversion

DAVAO City, Philippines—The Pontifical Institute of Foreign Mission’s general directorate in Rome said on Wednesday they are praying for the killers of Father Fausto Tentorio.

“We pray for the conversion of the killer and those who commissioned him, so that they may open their hearts to the Lord, who desires not the damnation of the sinner, but that he repent and have eternal life,” Father Gian Battista Zanchi, PIME Superior General based in Rome, said in a statement sent to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Zanchi also said the PIME was “grateful to all those who have expressed their closeness to us in this moment of sorrow.”