It is beyond words. That was what Father Jude Fernando, a priest in Sri Lanka, said of the terror attacks that killed more than 250 people there on Easter Sunday, April 21.

How to explain? The long line of coffins in a mass funeral in the fishing town of Negombo; the old man weeping inconsolably for his dead wife; the shoes of victims left behind; the orphaned teenager; the 45 dead children – and all for what? These heartbreaking scenes were as painful as they were shocking.