“I learned with sadness and pain of the news of the grave attacks, that precisely today, Easter, brought mourning and pain to churches and other places where people were gathered in Sri Lanka,” he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square to hear his Easter Sunday message. To see an attack in Sri Lanka while people were in churches and at hotels is devastating,” she said in a written statement. SRI LANKA EMBASSY It was with horror and sadness we heard of the bombings in Sri Lanka costing the lives of so many people.