"Next Saturday, January 27, we will celebrate the International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust. The memory and condemnation of that horrible extermination of millions of Jewish people and those of other faiths which occurred in the first half of the last century helps everyone not to forget that the logic of hatred and violence can never be justified because they deny our very humanity."
Then he launched a new appeal for peace because "war itself - he said - is a denial of humanity. Let us not tire of praying for peace, for conflicts to end, for weapons to be stopped and for the exhausted populations to be helped. I am thinking of the Middle East, Palestine, Israel, I think of the disturbing news coming from the tormented Ukraine, especially the bombings which hit places frequented by civilians, sowing death, destruction and suffering".
"I pray for the victims and their loved ones and I implore everyone, especially those with political responsibility, to safeguard human life by putting an end to wars", the Pontiff's appeal.
"Let's not forget: war is always a defeat, always. Only the manufacturers of the weapons 'win'."
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