Some Stories and Experiences of My Travels

On December 26th 2005 Cardinal Cormack Murphy O'Connor arrives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on a visit to CAFOD supported Tsunami rehabilitation projects. Here at his residence Archbishop Mario Zenari, the Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka, entertains Cardinal Murphy O'Connor to dinner December 27th 2005. The Cardinal's visit comes at a tense moment in Sri Lanka's faltering peace process. On the evening of 24th December, at the Cathedral midnight mass in Batticalao in Eastern Sri Lanka, a leading Tamil politician, Joseph Pararajasingham, was assassinated shortly after receiving communcion from the Bishop of Batticalao, Bishop Kingsley Swampillai.