Pope: War destroys the future

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Pope Francis, the world Catholic church, appealed for ceasefire in the Middle East.

Speaking at his weekly General Audience in Rome, Pope Francis implored both sides waging war in the Middle East to lay down their weapons and “heed the cries for peace from the poor, the people, and the innocent children”,

He warned of the possibility of the war’s expansion saying: “War solves no problems. It only sows death and destruction, increases hatred, multiplies revenge.

War erases the future; it erases the future.”

He appealed that “everything possible be done to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.”