He Pope Francisco today asked those who have an “interest” in it the wars “Listen to the voice of conscience” at the end of the year and have “the courage” to ask yourself how many lives these conflicts have cost.
“At the end of a year, may we have the courage to ask ourselves how many lives have been lost armed conflicts“How many deaths, how much destruction and suffering or how much poverty,” the pope asked after reciting Sunday’s Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace.
And he added: “Anyone who has an interest in these conflicts listens to the voice of their conscience.”
The Pope had previously lamented the wave of violence that had shocked Nigeria this Christmas and asked God to free the land from “these horrors.”
But he also remembered “the martyrs”. Ukraine, Israel, Palestine or Sudan and called for not forgetting the Rohingya, the Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar that faces persecution and harassment.
Francis also prayed for the at least 40 people who died in the explosion of a gas tanker in northern Liberia. EFE
War between Israel and Hamas
The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israeli army's offensive in the war against the Islamist group Hamas rose to 21,110 dead and 55,243 injured, most of them children and women, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry reported on Wednesday.
“In the last 24 hours alone, Israeli occupation forces carried out 16 massacres of entire families, leaving 195 people dead and 325 injured,” Ashraf al Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-controlled ministry, said in a statement.
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