“As he's done nearly every single week since being elected Bishop of Rome back on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis marked the 11th anniversary of his pontificate this past Wednesday by once again making an impassioned appeal for peace. ”
“Francis calls on Christians not to forget the many conflicts and clashes across the globe, Sudan, Africa's Sahel region, Democratic Rep. of Congo, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, Myanmar, Haiti, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Mexico”
“Pope Francis in his special prayer intention for April appeals for a culture of peace and for society to resort less to arms because "a lasting peace can exist only without weapons." April 11 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris ”
“"A partisan spirit that stubbornly promotes one's own ethnic group or particular interests, thus nurturing spirals of hatred and violence, is detrimental to everyone, since it blocks the necessary 'chemistry of the whole'," insisted Francis upon his arrival in Kinshasa on Jan. 31.”
“Pope Francis has urged the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a majority Christian nation that has seen its eastern provinces devastated by several decades of war, to bring about peace through "forgiveness, community and mission".”
“Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See's Secretary of State, has told European leaders they must make every effort to achieve peace in Ukraine. "We can't help but wonder if we are really doing everything we can, everything we can, to put an end to this tragedy,"”
“Religious leaders in their declaration at the end of the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan have appealed to world leaders to help build a better world by abandoning aggressive rhetoric and shunning conflict.”
“Despite the absence of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, whom the pope was planning to meet, Francis is expected to deliver a message of peace in the strategically located country”
“Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, has taken words of peace and hope to the people of South Sudan on behalf of Pope Francis who was prohibited from making a July 5-7 visit to the war-scarred country because of a knee problem.”
“Sixty bishops from twenty countries attended The Mediterranean, a Frontier of Peace[1], a meeting from February 19 to 23, 2020, not by chance in Bari, the setting in 2018 of a significant ecumenical prayer meeting”
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Eleventh anniversary of Francis' election marred by “madness” of war
Pope asks for prayers for peace
Russia hunts down dissenting voices in the Orthodox Church
Pope wants Christians to pray for a non-violent culture
Pope Francis at bedside of forgotten wars during Africa trip
"Lay down your arms, embrace mercy", pope tells the Congolese
Vatican calls for a "major European peace conference"
Religious leaders at Kazakhstan congress call for a conflict-free world
The pope goes to Kazakhstan, a strategic periphery
Cardinal Parolin goes to South Sudan, meets president
The Mediterranean, a Frontier of Peace - LA CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA
