Pope warns of ‘domino impact’ of battle

Pope Francis warned on Thursday in opposition to the ‘domino impact’ of army conflicts on worldwide relations. He was talking on the shut of a congress in Kazakhstan the place spiritual leaders from all over the world referred to as on world leaders for dialogue.

“Peace is pressing, as a result of any army battle or hotbed of stress and confrontation at present can solely have a dangerous ‘domino impact’ and critically compromise the system of worldwide relations”, declared the sovereign pontiff on the finish of the seventh Congress of World and Conventional Religions in Nur-Sultan.

The individuals on this tri-annual summit, representing numerous denominations (Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and so on.) divided into round 100 delegations from 50 international locations, adopted by majority a declaration calling on world leaders to ‘abandon all aggressive rhetoric and damaging power which ends up in the destabilization of the world’.

“We’re satisfied that the outbreak of any army battle, creating hotbeds of stress and confrontation, causes chain reactions that alter worldwide relations”, signifies this 35-point doc, the place Ukraine is rarely talked about .

Womens rights

This declaration – signed particularly by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the very best establishment of Sunni Islam – additionally says ‘to assist the safety of the dignity and rights of girls, the advance of their social standing as members equals of household and society.

Solely half a dozen ladies had been current among the many roughly 80 spiritual representatives seated round an enormous spherical desk on the Nur-Sultan Independence Palace. The pope himself referred to as for ‘defending the dignity’ of girls, saying they ‘should be given better roles and duties’.

‘What number of selections of dying can be averted if ladies had been on the middle of the choices! Let’s work in order that they’re extra revered, acknowledged and concerned,’ he added.

Speech at Nur-Sultan Cathedral

Since his election in 2013, Francis has labored to extend the variety of ladies in senior positions within the Curia, the Vatican’s ‘authorities’, however none have to date been awarded the top of workplace. a dicastery, the equal of a ministry.

On Thursday morning, the pontiff visited the Cathedral of Our Woman of Perpetual Assist in Nur-Sultan, the place he delivered a speech earlier than the native clergy, who warmly applauded him. He was to go away Thursday afternoon for Rome, the place he’ll arrive round 8:30 p.m. On the return flight, he’ll maintain his conventional press convention on the papal aircraft.

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