(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, MARCH 23 - The Pope, in the general audience, speaking of the war in Ukraine, asked to pray so that "the rulers understand that buying weapons and making me is not the solution to the problem. peace".
"With war everything is lost, everything, there is no victory in a war, everything is defeated. May the Lord send his Spirit so that he makes us understand that war is a defeat of humanity" and "free us from this need for self-destruction" , the Pope continued. "The news of displaced people, people fleeing, dead people, wounded people, many soldiers who have fallen on both sides, are news of death. We ask the Lord of life that free from this death of the war ", added the Pope, asking to join him in prayer on March 25 when he will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Then, speaking of the importance of the relationship between the elderly and the younger generations, he confided: "I can give a personal testimony. I learned the hatred and anger of war from my grandfather who had made the Piave in '14 and he he transmitted this anger to me at the war because he told me about the sufferings of the war and this cannot be learned from books, you learn by passing it on from grandparents to grandchildren ".
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