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Pope appeals for restraint against escalating conflict in Middle East
January 18, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Following his January 17 general audience, Pope Francis asked “everyone to avoid any step that increases tension in the Middle East and other scenarios of war.”
The Pontiff expressed “sympathy and solidarity with the victims, all civilians, of the rocket attack” in Erbil, Iraq—an attack that was launched by Iran.
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