Pope Francis urges not to justify war with religion
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Pope Francis urged all clergy not to use religion to justify the "evil of war"
RFE/RL reports this.
As noted, the Pontiff spoke at the Seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan.
In his address, he urged not to justify the war with religion.
"God is peace. He always leads us on the path of peace and never on the path of war.
If the creator to whom we dedicate our lives is the creator of human life, then how can we, those who call ourselves believers, agree to the destruction of this life," the Pope emphasized.
Pope Francis added that religious organizations should not support rulers and vice versa.
The mass media noted that the pontiff's appeal was personally addressed to the Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Kirill.
The head of the Moscow Patriarchate himself did not come to congress, but his delegation was present at the congress.
Kirill criticized the secular mentality of the West. He said that the conflict in Ukraine was sown by foreign threats to Russia's borders while at the same time portraying the conflict as a fight against the foreign liberal establishment, which allegedly demands that countries hold "gay parades" as the price of admission to a world of excessive consumption and freedom.
"These attempts led not only to the loss of the concept of justice in international relations but also brutal confrontation, military conflicts, the spread of terrorism and extremism in various parts of the world," Kirill's message reads.
We will remind you that Patriarch Kirill justified russia's invasion of Ukraine, and recently the head of the Russian Church threatened wealthy Russians with hell.
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