article_snippet.sent: Hitting out: Justin Welby said brand killings 'truly shocking'
  148 Christian students at Garissa University College were 'martyrs' THE Archbishop of Canterbury will today hail the students killed by Islamist militants in Kenya last week as ‘martyrs’, as Church leaders and politicians use Easter to condemn persecution of Christians.
article_snippet.sent: Justin Welby will say in Justin Welby Easter sermon that 148 Christian students slaughtered by Somali gunmen on Thursday were ‘witnesses’ to 148 Christian students slaughtered by Somali gunmen on Thursday faith and suffered ‘cruel deaths’.
article_snippet.sent: Justin Welby comments follow Pope Francis’s denunciation of the ‘senseless’ killings at Garissa University College, in which Christians were singled out and shot.
article_snippet.sent: Pope Francis’s said in a Good Friday service in Rome that too many were guilty of a ‘complicit silence’ in the face of such attacks.
article_snippet.sent: In an overtly religious Easter message, David Cameron says it was ‘truly shocking’ that Christians were still tortured or killed because of Christians faith in much of the world.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, a survivor of the ‘senseless’ killings at Garissa University College, in which Christians were singled out and shot was found yesterday two days after the massacre.
article_snippet.sent: Archbishop Welby will also refer in Archbishop Welby sermon in Canterbury Cathedral to other Christians killed in massacres, including in Libya, saying: ‘There have been so many martyrs in the last year.
article_snippet.sent: 148 Christian studentsat Garissa University College, Kenya, were slaughtered by the Al-Shabaab gunmen on Thursday.
highlights_snippet.sent: Justin Welby comments follow Pope Francis's denunciation of the killings .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: David Cameron used David Cameron Easter message to brand killings 'truly shocking'
  148 Christian students at Garissa University College were slaughtered .
  