The victims of war fleeing
their homelands "too often meet the deafening silence of
indifference, the selfishness of hose who are bothered, the
coldness of those who turn off their cries for help with the
ease with which they change channels on the TV," Pope Francis
said at an inter-religious prayer meeting in Assisi Tuesday.
"They are often given, like Jesus, the bitter vinegar of
refusal," he said. Speaking in the Basilica of St Francis, the
pope said the victims of war implore peace. "In Jesus's words 'I
am thirsty' we can hear the voice of the suffering, the hidden
cry of little innocent ones from whom the light of this world is
cut off, the heartfelt supplication of the poor and those most
in need of peace," he said. "The victims of wars that pollute
people with hate and the earth with arms implore peace," he
said.
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