Pope Francis insisted that our indifference to violence is ‘sacrilegious’ and grieves God, being a serious motive that offends God. He was speaking at the concluding vespers of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, on January 25.
In his message for the 57th World Day of Social Communications on the theme “Speaking with the heart”, Pope Francis encourages everyone to communicate “with open heart and arms.”
"It is time to raise our gaze and move towards encounter and reconciliation with justice. The country must not continue in anxiety, fear and uncertainty," the statement read.
“With the whole family of God here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, I am praying for the victims of this violence,” Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a statement.
'With pain and anguish, we ask why these sacred places are attacked and destroyed; let all guns fall silent, let us start the sacred pilgrimage of peace,' Myanmar Church leaders.
Pope Francis stressed interreligious dialogue as a way to cultivate ecological responsibility when he met with a group of Cambodian Buddhists on January 19.
Pope Francis sent his condolences on the attack on the Pentecostal church in DR Congo in a telegram message on January 17. He offered compassion and closeness to all the families affected by the tragedy.
