BOULDER, Colo. (OSV News) — As Boulder residents reeled from a violent attack on peaceful demonstrators June 1 who called for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, area faith leaders expressed sorrow over the attack and urged an end to such violence.

The attack was against participants in a weekly walk on a pedestrian mall in downtown Boulder sponsored by the city’s chapter of Run for Their Lives.

The alleged attacker, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was armed with a homemade flamethrower and threw two Molotov cocktails at the group, burning multiple victims, police said. Witnesses said Soliman yelled, “Free Palestine.”

Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila encouraged the Catholic faithful to pray for those affected and pray for the Lord “to bring comfort, he

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