God does not support the war: Pope indirectly reproached the head of the ROC for supporting aggression

Today, on September 14, the Pontiff spoke at the seventh Congress of world leaders and traditional religions in the capital of Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan. At a meeting where Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and representatives of other denominations gathered, Francis said that God did not support the war. "God is peace. He always leads us through peace, not through war," the Pope said in particular. In his address, the Pontiff urged not to justify hostilities with religion.

He stressed that all conflicts should be resolved through dialogue, not through "void arguments", the use of weapons and threats. "You can never justify violence. We should not allow the secular to use the sacred for their purposes. May the sacred will not be the support of power and power does not relieve sacred!" - said the head of the Catholic Church. Francis appealed to the audience at the meeting, insisting that world religious leaders should unite in condemnation of war.

"If the creator we have dedicated our lives to the author of human life, then as we, those who call ourselves believers, we can agree to the destruction of this life," Francis said. According to journalists, the Russian Patriarch Cyril also had to come to a meeting in Kazakhstan, but refused to travel. Instead, he sent a delegation of the ROC to Nur-Sultan, headed by Metropolitan Anthony, who is his right hand.

Metropolitan Anthony also met with the Pope, and then told reporters that the audience was "very hearty. " According to him, Francis intends to meet Patriarch Cyril. The first and the only meeting of them took place in 2016 in Cuba. We will remind, in his statement on August 24 Francis commented the murder of the Russian propagandist Daria Dugina, the daughter of the Russian philosopher of the far -right Stybe Alexander Dugin. He said "innocent pay for the war.