‘No God of war’, Pope says as faith leaders meet
Pope Francis waves during a press discussion on a craft after his revisit to Krakow, Poland for a World Youth Days, on Jul 31, 2016.
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ASSISI, ITALY: Pope Francis denounced those who salary fight in a name of God Tuesday, as he met faith leaders and dispute victims to plead flourishing eremite racism and sharpening assault around a world.
“The universe is during war, a universe is suffering,” a Argentine pontiff pronounced forward of a meeting, that came as fighting resumed in Syria and US authorities investigated an conflict presumably related to a Islamic State group.
“There is no God of war,” he said, job on “all organisation and women of good will, of any religion, to urge for peace”.
The annual World Day of Prayer event, determined by John Paul II 30 years ago and hold in a Gothic city of Assisi in executive Italy, aims to fight extremism dressed adult as sacrament and a harm of people for their faiths.
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The pope also reminded Western countries that while they had suffered a fibre of lethal jihadist attacks, there were tools of a universe where cities were being flattened by fighting, prisoners were being tortured and families were starving to death.
“We are frightened… by some militant acts,” he pronounced during morning mass during a Vatican, “(but) this is zero compared to what is function in those countries, in those lands where day and night bombs fall.”
“As we urge today, it would be good if we all felt shame, contrition that humans, a brothers and sisters, are able of doing this.”
The pope hold one-on-one talks with faith leaders, including a Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, a Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, and Din Syamsuddin, authority of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second largest Islamic organisation.
This welfare design expelled by a Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis (R) jolt hands with a lady on attainment during a Saint Francis Basilica in Assisi on Sep 20, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
Rabbi David Rosen, from a American Jewish Committee and Koei Morikawa, a Supreme Head of a Tendai Japanese propagandize of Mahayana Buddhism, also met Francis.
The 79-year-old pope had arrived amid parsimonious confidence in Assisi for lunch with a leaders and a organization of refugees, including Syrians and Palestinians, an Eritrean, dual Nigerian women and a 23-year-old from Mali who fled crisis-torn Libya for Sicily by boat.
The dish was dull off with a cake sporting 25 candles to applaud Bartholomew I’s 25 years as Patriarch, Italian media said.
At 4pm (1400 GMT) a leaders will urge before entrance together for a corner rite where messages of assent will be review out by any personality and one of a fight victims.
Some 500 member from opposite eremite traditions have been holding partial in a array of round-tables with lay people in a city given Sunday, covering topics from eremite assault to meridian change and a emigration crisis.
It is a pope’s second revisit in as many months to a lifelike bank town, where his name-sake Saint Francis of Assisi was innate and found God, renouncing his resources for a life of misery and apropos an intermediary of peace.
The conduct of a world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, who took a pope name Francis in loyalty to a famous Christian brother and his friendship to assent and forgiveness, has insisted assault committed in a name of sacrament has zero to do with God.
During a outing to Poland in Aug he pronounced “the universe is during war”, though driven by fervour for “interests, money, resources, not religion”.
“All religions wish peace, it’s a others who wish war”, he said, warning opposite equating Islam with terrorism, insisting there were fundamentalist Catholics too.
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