Pope Francis asked to fight for peace in the “desert of death” in Syria, Gaza and Ukraine, during the Angelus prayer on the day of Saint Stephen, considered the Catholic Church’s first martyr.
“Through the intercession of the first martyr, we also ask for the invocation of peace for people torn by war,” the pope said, looking out the window of the apostolic palace.
And he added: “The media shows us what war produces. We have seen it in Syria, in Gaza, we see it in tortured Ukraine. A desert of death and is that what we want?”
“The people want peace. Let us pray for peace, let us fight for peace,” he concluded his call.
In his Christmas message last Monday, before the ‘urbi et orbi’ blessing, the Pope assured that “the people who do not want weapons but bread, who find it difficult to move forward and ask for peace, do not know how many public resources are allocated to weapons. And yet they should know!’
“Let this be spoken, let this be written, so that the interests and benefits that pull the strings of wars may be known,” he said.
Source: El heraldo
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