THE Pope Francis He called on everyone today to “lay down their arms” in Syria and “re-weave the social fabric”, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in the country.
“I reiterate my sincere appeal to the warring parties to show signs of goodwill, so that a hopeful light may be shed for the exhausted population,” the pope said in the established Sunday prayer in St. Peter’s Square.
“I also hope that there will be a constructive and decisive commitment of solidarity on the part of the international community so that, once the weapons have been laid down, the social fabric can be woven again and reconstruction and economic recovery can begin again,” he added.
The pope recalled that the decade of bloody conflicts had led to “one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes of our time: an unspecified number of dead and wounded, millions of refugees, thousands of missing persons, catastrophes, acts of violence of all kinds, inhuman and degrading treatment more vulnerable, such as children, women and the elderly. “
Francis, who has just returned from a historic visit to Iraq, has no plans to go to Syria, but has often called for a ceasefire in the “martyr” country.
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