May Armenia and Azerbaijan draw closer to a definitive peace, he prayed, especially through humanitarian outreach and the return of refugees to their homes in security and with respect for religious traditions and places of worship.
The Pope prayed for the people of the Sahel region, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan—all places where tensions are high, but peace is possible with goodwill and hard efforts.
May the "fraternal bonds" be strengthened on the Korean peninsula, the Pope prayed, through "dialogue and reconciliation capable of creating the conditions for lasting peace."
He also called for a "no" to weaponry given that, with human weakness, we can often end up using it for war sooner or later. Peace is even more difficult, he observed, "when arms production, sales, and trade are on the rise" and public funds spent on arms can come at the expense of bread for the hungry.
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