About 50 thousand faithful are present in St. Peter's Square for the Easter Mass presided over by Pope Francis.
Vatican sources report this.
In the prayers of the faithful, at the Easter Mass presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, there is also an invocation in Ukrainian: God "grant our deceased brothers and sisters to participate in the eternal Easter".
Prayers were also said in Arabic, Chinese, German and English.
"Peace be for the battered Ukraine, so severely tested by the violence and destruction of the cruel and senseless war it has been dragged into. On this terrible night of suffering and death, a new dawn of hope soon dawns! Peace be chosen. Yes. stop flexing your muscles while people suffer. "
The Pope said so. "Whoever has the responsibility of nations listen to the cry for peace of the people. Listen to the disturbing question posed by scientists almost seventy years ago: 'Will we put an end to mankind, or will humanity be able to give up war? '"he said, citing the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955.
Peace is "possible".
This is what the Pope says. "Every war brings with it aftermath that involve all of humanity: from grief to the drama of refugees, to the economic and food crisis of which we can already see the signs. Faced with the enduring signs of the war, as in the many and painful defeats of life, Christ, conqueror of sin, fear and death, exhorts us not to surrender to evil and violence ".
"Let us allow ourselves to be overcome by the peace of Christ! Peace is possible, peace is a duty, peace is everyone's primary responsibility!", He said in the Urbi et Orbi Message.
