He also appealed for an end to the „carnage“ in Syria.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after at least 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border, saying the conflict there „does not spare the defenseless.“ The pope made his appeal in his „Urbi et Orbi“ (to the city and the world) message from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to tens of thousands of people in the flower-bedecked square below where he earlier celebrated a Mass.
