This Sunday, Pope Francis asked those “interested” in wars to “listen to the voice of conscience” at the end of the year and have the “courage” to ask themselves how many lives have been lost in these conflicts.
“At the end of the year, let us have the courage to ask ourselves how many lives have been taken by armed conflicts, how many deaths, how much destruction and suffering or how much poverty,” the pontiff addressed after the Angelus prayer through the window of the Apostolic Palace, adding: “Whoever is interested in these conflicts should listen to the voice of conscience.”
The pope has already lamented the wave of violence that has rocked Nigeria this Christmas and asked God to free the country “from these horrors” and also remembered the “martyred” people of Ukraine, Israel, Palestine and Sudan, and asked not to forget the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group persecuted and oppressed in Myanmar.
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