Vatican City, Sep 8, 2025 / 09:15 am

Vatican experts said on Monday that the two children killed in last month’s shooting at a Minneapolis church could one day be included on a list they are compiling of “new martyrs and witnesses of the faith.”

Harper Moyski, 10, and Fletcher Merkel, 8, were killed while attending a parochial school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church on Aug. 27 — prompting some to ask whether they could be considered martyrs killed “in hatred of the faith.”

“If the diocese or other local ecclesial entities present these figures to us as witnesses of the faith, we will examine them and see if we can include them in the list,” said Archbishop Fabio Fabene, president of the Vatican “Commission of New Martyrs — Witnesses of the Faith.”

The commission, created by Pope

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