Pope Francis Appeals for Peace in the Middle East

Pope Francis has once more expressed his deep concern at the worsening violence in the Middle East. “I am very concerned at the escalation of tension in the Holy Land and in the Middle East, and the spiral of violence that is moving away further from the path of peace, dialogue and negotiation,” he said at the end of his general audience in Rome’s St. Peter’s Square. “I express my great sorrow for the dead and wounded and with prayer and affection I am close to all who suffer,” he said. “I repeat that the use of violence can never lead to peace,” he said, stressing that “war begets war, violence begets violence.”
Pope Francis also made it an occasion to extend his “cordial wishes” to Muslims worldwide for the fasting month of Ramadan. He wished that this “privileged time of prayer and fasting help in walking the path of God which is of peace.”
(Source: vaticannews.va)