(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, MARCH 27 - The Pope returns to the Angelus to pray for the end of the war in Ukraine.
He spoke of the "bestiality of war", a "barbaric exacrilego".
"War cannot be something inevitable", underlined the Pontiff.
"There is a need to repudiate war as a place of death, where fathers and mothers bury their children, where men kill their brothers without even having seen them, where the powerful decide and the poor die", continued the Pope. a month from the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, from the beginning of this cruel and senseless war which, like any war, represents a defeat for all, for all of us ", he recalled.
Then he lit a beacon on refugee children: "The war did not destroy only the present but also the future of a society. I understand that since the beginning of the aggression in Ukraine a sudue child has been displaced from the country. This means destroying the future. cause dramatic trauma in the smallest innocents ".
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