(ANSA-AFP) - 'AWĀLĪ, NOV 4 - Pope Francis warned in Bahrain
on Friday that "opposing blocs" and global divisions have put
humanity on a "delicate precipice", a veiled reference to the
Ukraine war. "We are living at a time when humanity, connected
as never before, appears much more divided than united," he said
during a speech to religious leaders in the Gulf kingdom. "We
continue to find ourselves on the brink of a delicate precipice
and we do not want to fall." Francis, who has made religious
dialogue a pillar of his papacy, was speaking on the first full
day of his trip to the tiny island state, where he arrived on
Thursday afternoon. His visit comes with the Ukraine war in its
ninth month, and tensions growing on the Korean Peninsula. In
his speech on Friday, Francis warned that "a few potentates are
caught up in a resolute struggle for partisan interests,
reviving obsolete rhetoric, redesigning spheres of influence and
opposing blocs." (ANSA-AFP).
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