Pope Francis begged the international community on Sunday to commit to ending the war in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, which he described as “disgusting” and a “senseless massacre”, after praying the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square.
“The violent aggression against Ukraine does not stop, a senseless massacre where atrocities are repeated every day and there is no justification for this. I beseech the actors of the international community to commit themselves to stop this disgusting war,” he said.
The pontiff lamented that again this week “missiles and bombs have been launched against the elderly, children, mothers, pregnant women” and recalled that this Saturday he visited the Bambino Gesu hospital where some Ukrainian children who were victims of the bombings are hospitalized and was able to verify how “One had had an arm amputated and another had a head injury.”
He also wanted to remember the millions of refugees fleeing from the bombs and who have lost everything, and expressed “his pain” for those who cannot escape.
“The elderly, children, fragile people are left to die under the bombs without receiving help and without security, not even from an anti-aircraft shelter,” explained Francisco, who referred to the bombing as “something inhuman and sacrilegious, because it goes against sacredness of human life.
“It is cruel, inhuman and sacrilegious,” Francis repeated in one of his harshest appeals since the war began, although, again, without citing Russia.
The Argentine pontiff mentioned the priests who are close to the Ukrainian population these days and thanked them for their support of “all these desperate people” and quoted the nuncio, the Pope’s ambassador, Visvaldas Kulbokas, who has not left the country and who, he stressed: “with his presence he makes me close to this martyred Ukrainian people”.
The pope also urged “not to get used to violence and war” and not “to welcome with generosity” as is being done until now, because there is a danger “that in the coming weeks or months we will get used to it and forget.”
Francis also called for attention to all women and children who flee so that they do not fall into the hands “of the vultures of society”, in a wake-up call to the danger of human trafficking. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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