Francis said he was horrified by the suspected chemical weapons attack, calling it an «unacceptable massacre» of innocent civilians.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis condemned a deadly blast at a church in Egypt and said at a Palm Sunday Mass that the world was suffering from wars, terrorism and «interests that are armed and ready to strike. »
Francis, who has not made any direct public comment on the current Middle East crisis, said the Mass as international tensions increased following the US missile strike on a Syrian air base, which the Pentagon says was involved in a chemical weapons attack that killed 87 people.
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