Ukraine: Pope calls for 'demilitarization of hearts'

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 10 - Pope Francis on Tuesday called for a "demilitarization of hearts" over the Ukraine conflict.
    In his message for grandparents' day on July 24, Francis said a "conversion" was needed to achieve this.
    "The world is going through a period of tough trial, marked first by the unexpected and furious storm of the pandemic, and then by a war that wounds peace and development on a global scale," he said.
    "It is no accident that war has returned to Europe at a time when the generation that lived through it in the last century is disappearing." Stressing that there are "other widespread forms of violence", the pontiff said "we need a deep change, a conversion, to demilitarize hearts, enabling everyone to recognize a brother in others". (ANSA).