My wife’s throat slitted by terrorists because she wouldn't renounce Christ, man tells Pope

  Pope Francis spoke emotionally Sunday of his
meeting a day earlier with migrants on the Greek
island of Lesbos, which culminated with him taking
three Syrian families back to the Vatican.
Addressing worshippers at his weekly Angelus
prayer in St. Peter's Square, the 79-year-old pontiff,
who is himself the son of Italian immigrants in
Argentina, related his visit to a migrant processing
centre, where around 3,000 people are being held.
"We greeted around 300 of them, one by one," said
Francis, who was accompanied on his visit by
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop
Ieronymos of Athens.
"There were so many children. Some of these
children witnessed their parents and friends dying,
drowned at sea.
"I saw such suffering," he said, visibly moved.
The Roman Catholic leader then went on to tell of
one particular case, "that of a young man, who was
not even 40."
"I met him yesterday with his two sons. He was
Muslim and told me he had married a Christian,
(and that) they loved and respected each other."
But the woman fell victim to Islamist radicals, he
said.
"She had her throat slit by terrorists because she
would not renounce Christ and abandon her faith,"
said Francis, calling her a "martyr".
As for her grieving spouse, he said sorrowfully,
"this man was crying so much".
The pope's visit to Lesbos, one of the main ports of
arrival for people fleeing war, poverty and
persecution in the Middle East and Asia, was seen
as a lesson in solidarity for Europe, where the
doors to migrants are progressively being slammed
shut.
Declaring "we are all migrants", Francis used his
trip to emphasise that the arrivals were not mere
numbers, but people with "faces, names and
individual stories."