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.
