Pope Francis on Wednesday told
a Mass for indigenous people in Chile that violence was never
justified to assert rights.
"A culture of mutual recognition cannot be built on the basis
of violence and destruction, which in the end ask for a price in
human lives," he said in this Chilean city, in the heart of the
historic territory of the Mapuche people.
The pontiff went on to say that "you cannot ask for
recognition by annihilating other people, because this only
produces more violence and division".
Francis said "violence calls up violence and destruction
increases fractures and separation".
The pope said "violence ends up making the most just cause
false.
"That is why we say No to violence that destroys".
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