“We would like to embrace with mercy all problems and places that we cannot reach with our actions”, say the organisers of the ecumenical service in memory of the Christian martyrs which will take place in Warsaw tomorrow evening, 10 May. The service will be attended by several representatives of various religious communities and will be dedicated to the memory of those who “have been killed over the past few years because of their faithfulness to their religion” in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The event, which is an initiative of the Sant’Egidio Community, will be presided over by Card. Kazimierz Nycz, Archbishop of the Polish city. “The memory of the some 200 million Christians who, according to recent estimates, are being persecuted across the world” is honoured for the third consecutive year in this event which will be entitled “witnesses of mercy” because “in our world today, the martyrs proclaim the good news and God’s mercy with all their lives”. “We believe that, in this Year of Mercy, we have the duty to proclaim the Risen One who by His death has brought down the walls of hostility between peoples”, say the members of the Sant’Egidio Community. “We believe that Christ today is particularly present among the persecuted, among those who are forced to leave their homes, and those who flee war and misery”.