Too many defenseless civilian victims of wars - pope - Vatican. Pope Francis on Wednesday reiterated his call for an end to the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and the other areas of the world afflicted by conflict.
"We mark the National Day of Civilian War Victims in Italytomorrow," the Argentine pontiff said at the end of his weekly general audience in the Vatican. "When one reads the stories of these days of war, there is so much cruelty, so much"