Pope Francis today thanked the people of Morocco for their example with the unity shown in the fight to try to save little Rayan, the 5-year-old boy who spent more than a hundred hours trapped in the bottom of a well 32 meters deep and whose body was rescued last night.
“In Morocco, an entire people has come together to save Rayan,” said the pontiff at the end of Sunday’s Angelus prayer before dozens of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, commenting that among the many bad news there is , there are also “beautiful things”.
Francisco stressed that “the whole town was working to save a child” and “although they tried everything, unfortunately they did not succeed”, but “those photographs of a town waiting to save a child” that he has seen in the newspapers today show his “example”.
“Thanks to this town for this testimony,” he added about a case that has kept the whole of Morocco in suspense, which he hoped to be able to get the little boy out alive, despite the complexity of the rescue device and his state of health of the child, who he was without food or water for five days.
The Rayan case, which has been followed around the world, also aroused a wave of solidarity on social networks, as artists, politicians and athletes from around the world sent messages of solidarity with the boy’s family.