After Mass in St. Peter's Square on September 2, Pope Francis opened the second session of the General Assembly of the Synod by calling for a day of prayer and fast on October 7, the one-year anniversary of the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Our assembly took place in the context of a world in crisis, whose wounds and scandalous inequalities resonated painfully in our hearts, infusing our work with a particular gravity, especially since some of us come from countries where war rages.
